Benefits of Recycled Cotton & Recycled Textiles

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Recycling isn’t just about plastic. A great variety of day-to-day items are now being remade from all sorts of other defunct items that are chucked away. A case in point: clothing, which is on the verge of becoming a major market for recycling using repurposed fabrics. In 2022 the global market for recycled textiles was valued at over $5 billion and that’s expected to increase by thousands of millions to nearly $8 billion by 2030. Those figures might sound impressive, and you may have also heard about global brands like Adidas and Allbirds leading the way with recycled products. But bear in mind recycled fashion is still an untapped market. The amount of textile waste is rising fast, having roughly doubled over the past 20 years. But fewer than 1% of clothes are made from recycled textiles at the time
Recycling isn’t just about plastic. A great variety of day-to-day items are now being remade from all sorts of other defunct items that are chucked