In Sweden, recycled fabrics turn old clothes into new fashion
Discarded, sorted clothes arrive by ship on the shores of Sundsvall, in the Gulf of Bothnia inlet of the Baltic Sea. But they aren’t bound for a landfill.
Rather, they are destined for the city’s Renewcell plant, where they will be dissolved and processed into a new substance: Circulose. This material looks like white cardboard, feels like watercolor paper, and – most importantly – can be spun into yarns for textile manufacturers.
Fashion is a trillion-dollar industry notorious for its negative toll on the planet. But Renewcell’s patented technology, now available commercially, and successful launch of the world’s first industrial-scale textile recycling plant
