Marking a significant landmark step for circular fashion, Circ, a leading innovator in next-gen textiles, has unveiled France’s first commercial-scale facility dedicated to recycling blended textiles. It is the world’s first plant capable of handling industrial volumes of mixed fabrics like polycotton, which take over global textile waste yet are disreputably complex to recycle.
The facility transforms useless blended textiles into recycled cellulose and PET, formulating high-quality raw materials for newfangled garments and progressing a circular textile economy.
Canopy, a worldwide environmental nonprofit championing forest-friendly supply chains, praised the launch as a crucial stride in redesigning the fashion industry.
“This facility will be a game-changer,” said Nicole Rycroft, Canopy’s Founder and Executive Director. “It transforms the fashion industry’s outdated take-make-waste model into one that is circular, climate-smart, and defensive of vital forests.”
Every year, more than 300 million trees are cut down to fabricate textiles like viscose and rayon, frequently sourced from the world’s most ecologically important forests. At the same time, annually, almost 7 million tons of textiles are discarded in Europe alone, with the majority reduced to ashes or sent to landfills, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Circ’s facility addresses these challenges by transforming hard-to-process textiles into high-quality, virgin-equivalent fibers; minimizing reliance on raw materials sourced from forests; and sinking the use of fossil-fuel-based polyester to lower the fashion industry’s carbon emissions.
This launch underlines a noteworthy breakthrough sustainably, showcasing that a circular, scalable future for the apparel landscape is not just promising but vigorously recounted today.
