LO NEEL - The challenge of textile-to-textile recycling

The challenge of textile-to-textile recycling

This is the essential key, the one that could enable a shift and which requires massive commitment and investment.

Only 1% of materials are recycled from textile to textile, and this is the crux of the matter for the effective implementation of recycling within the fashion industry.

Concerning the 2 most used fibers in the world, cotton and polyester, Textile exchange shares that 1% of cotton and 15% of polyester come from recycling, of which 99% of recycled polyester comes from the recycling of PET bottles.

Certainly, these plastic bottles make it possible to extract fewer fossil resources, however they become the subject of supply fights between industries, since the agri-food industry, the main supplier, finds itself in competition with textiles. The industry must recycle what it puts on the market, and not purge materials from other industries.

If recycling is a part of the circular economy, LO NEEL is convinced that clothing qualified as responsible must above all last over time thanks to its quality and its ability to cross fashions.