As a new Textile Exchange report calls for an end to the use of both virgin synthetic textiles and polyester recycled from plastic bottles by the end of the decade, we spoke to three textile-to-textile recycling pioneers about their ambitions.
All three are focused on recovering both polyester and cellulose from blended fabrics - regarded as one of the industry's toughest challenges - but are at different stages of development, from lab research to industrial scale.
