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A textile-to-textile recycled material that replaces virgin oil, cotton and wood in production of textile fibers
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Circulose
A textile-to-textile recycled material that replaces virgin oil, cotton and wood in production of textile fibers
Label Date
September 2, 2022
By
Renewcell
From
Sweden
Maturity stage
TRL 9 / CRI 5-6 - Market competition driving widespread deployment &/"Bankable" grade asset class
Circulose® is made from discarded textiles, like that worn-out pair of jeans at the back of your closet. Using a breakthrough recycling process powered by 100% renewable energy, we transform old clothes into a pristine natural material for fashion that needs no cotton fields, no oil, and no trees. THIS IS HOW IT WORKS: We take in garments that can’t be resold to people. Either they’re way too worn-out or hopelessly out of style. We prefer cotton clothes because they contain a lot of cellulose. The clothes are shredded, de-buttoned, de-zipped, de-colored and turned into a slurry. Contaminants like plastic polyester are taken out. What remains is cellulose - the biodegradable organic polymer that cotton, trees and all green plants on earth are made out of. The slurry is dried to produce sheets of pure Circulose®. We package the sheets into bales and ship them to be made back into natural textile fibers. A brand designs new virgin quality clothes using Circulose® fibers.
The Environmental Benefits
- •Equal in quality to conventional virgin man-made cellulosic fiber pulp
- •100% textile-to-textile recycled
- •-2 kg CO2e per kg produces on net (SCS Global Services 2017 LCA report)
- •100% biodegradable
The Financial Benefits
- •30% cheaper than virgin organic cotton at large scale production
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Renewcell
We make fashion circular. Recycling clothes finally works.
Headquarters
114 36 Stockholm, Sweden
Type
Company
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