For now, barely one percent of textiles in Europe are turned back into new clothes. / Photo: AFP Archive
CETIA, a company in the southwest of France is finally offering some mechanical solutions to the challenges of recycling clothes. That is because clothes are usually a complex mix of materials that must be separated carefully to keep the fibres in good condition if there is any hope of respinning them into new garments.
CETIA's work is backed by big retailers like Decathlon and Zalando, who are urgently looking for industrial-scale solutions.The French government sees the potential for new manufacturing jobs if recycling technology allows it to deal with some of the 200,000 tonnes of textile waste currently being shipped abroad each year.
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