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2025 the EU imposes a separate TextileWaste collection
By now you’ve probably heard that by 2025 the EU imposes a separate TextileWaste collection, for a.o. household textiles. How and what to do with the sorted textiles, is still🤷♀️ The collected textiles, will include everything from dirty worn-out socks, unworn...
Vision for textile-to-textile future
Danish Pioneer-work
New projects are emerging in Denmark and abroad; They are on a mission to make a living off of creating new textiles from textile waste. Textile Pioneers has made their mark at home [in Denmark ed.] for their effort.
The small business, based in Copenhagen, has just started a collaboration with a factory in Portugal, where they kan recycle almost any type of textile. By using Mechanical recycling, where the textiles are scratched up and subsequently spun into new yarns, which can be used for new garments
2nd of September 2021, on stage at the National Climate meet in Denmark
Discussing sustainable production and consumption2nd of September 2021, we could be found on stage at the National Climate meet in Denmark, discussing sustainable production and consumption. After 3 days at the National Climate meet we left feeling inspired and...
Interested in Sustainability? Join our WALK & TALK?
COME JOIN US FOR A WALK & TALKWe are introducing a series of monthly walk & talks. We’d like to share our knowledge, and opinions, on all subjects related to sustainability. We’d also like your take on sustainability. We often hear that Government...
New leaps for textile recycling: becoming greener and more commercially interesting
Things are moving on the recycling arena; the quality of the output is way better with new technology and we can now cut out chemicals all together. Have a read to learn more.
We in Textile Pioneers have created the first Danish initiatives on recycling old stock lots from a fashion company and make new garments of the same material.
What 2021 will bring to textile recycling
Thoughts from circular textile nerds at TEXTILE PIONEERS in Copenhagen. This is what we see coming in 2021!
Natural dyes – going back to the roots
The dyeing process has a large negative climate impact in clothes production. But there are better options! Learn more about Natural dyes in this article. We can use natural waste materials and get beautiful colors on recycled cotton garments. It’s all about going back to the roots.
Ever heard of authentic organic cotton? Even better than ‘normal’ organic cotton.
We have all heard that organic cotton is better than conventional cotton. But is there an even better option out there? Wanna learn about authentic organic cotton – read this!
What is recycled polyester and is it really sustainable?
Plastic is still plastic – right? Does not sound so sustainable to me. We explain why we believe that recycled polyester is a sustainable solution, when we now have all this plastic produced. Do you want to learn how we produce our recycled plastic – read this!
LET’S KEEP TALKING
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