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Process of making

  • 20 juni 2016

All our post-consumer textiles are collected and sorted, by rewearables and recyclables, (roughly) by composition and by color. Then the textiles are stripped from non-recyclable pieces such as zippers and buttons. The waste materials from this process (~17% of the total volume) are processed according to environmental regulation. The cleaned textiles are then cut and pulled into strings of fibre.

The yarn is spun by the Spanish firm Recover, trusted worldwide because of their long history in recycling and because they are third party certified for highest labor and environmental standards. These fibres are mixed in a huge room  with recycled PET from bottles and are carded, spun and twisted into 20/2 Nm yarn for the production of new textiles (10-15 % waste in recycling and spinning process).

By mixing the  post-consumer textiles sorted by color, 80 % of the dyeing process that would be necessary otherwise with virgin raw materials can be avoided. And it is so cool, any color of the Pantone color range can be made.

Finally the yarns are transported to weavers and knitters  to produce different types of textile products.

 

NB. The yarn is certified GRS, global compact and Oeko-tex 100. Since Oeko-tex does not make a difference between post industrial and post consumer textiles the yarn has been additionally tested ( ph, azo dyes and formaldehyde).

 

 

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We became intrigued by the fact that recycling is focused on pure materials (100% cotton, wool or polyester). What we wear is mostly a blend of materials. It is easy to see that this gives a huge gap between theory and reality! Our approach is actionable and pragmatic. What can be done in a responsible way? – instead of disregarding a huge part of the current, mostly blended, textile waste.
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