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Cate Lawrence

Senior Writer @ Tech.eu | Freelance Journalist

Many industries are being ushered into a more sustainable future whether they like it or not, due to regulatory mandates. But the reality is, we live in an era of fast fashion, where despite the best efforts of sustainability campaigners, people buy more clothes than they wear, resulting in them being burnt or ending up in landfills.  Less than 1 per cent of used textiles worldwide are recycled into new textile fibres. But now, a novel technology is changing things for the better. German startup eeden has developed a chemical process that recovers cellulose from cotton and transforms polyester into its basic building blocks. Both raw materials can then be processed into new, high-quality textile fibres and given a second life, creating a sustainable and economically beneficial closed loop. I spoke to Steffen Gerlach, co-founder of eeden, to find out more. 

This startup is closing the loop, turning cotton-PET blends into new textile fibres

This startup is closing the loop, turning cotton-PET blends into new textile fibres

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Let’s turn this 1% into a lot more! Thank you for the feature, Cate Lawrence

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