Abstract

Textile-to-textile circularity — Go big, fast.
There is little mystery to the situation, the textile industry’s sustainability problems are big because the textile industry is enormous. 300 million people (source: EMF) creating 150 billion garments every year (source: WEF) work in the sector. For an innovator hoping to decrease our industry’s harm to the world, size, next to the innovation itself, is crucial. Moreover, with just seven years until 2030, scale must happen fast.

At Renewcell, we have stuck to a few principles that have enabled us to go big, fast. First, we have designed a recycling process that fits established machinery, infrastructure, and supplier networks. Second, we have made sure that we yield a product that is equal to virgin quality specifications — worse is a non-starter, and superior is very hard, but equal is perfect. Third, we have worked closely with our intended customers and end users to validate our innovation and lock in future demand, which in turn has made it possible for us to gather the capital required to buy the off-the-shelf machinery we need.

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