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Source: LetsRecycle
In April 2025, Alsico embarked on a collaboration with Sixone to transform old polyester-blend workwear from its ARX garment collection facility into polyester chips on a large scale.
After several months of research and testing, this partnership has successfully produced its inaugural closed-loop fabric composed entirely of recycled materials.
Sixone’s innovative technology converts post-consumer textiles into polyester chips, which serve as the foundation for Alsico’s new garment.
Utilizing a distinctive molecular analysis process, the company identifies the optimal recycling conditions for each type of textile, allowing it to extract pure polyester from chemically complex blends.
This method enables Sixone to surpass traditional fiber and color limitations, breathing new life into materials previously deemed unrecyclable.
The final garment, developed under Alsico’s ARX initiative—which focuses on rework, repair, care, and recycling—has undergone rigorous testing and validation to ensure it meets the market and performance standards set by the workwear manufacturer.
A team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has engineered a recyclable yarn made from polyethylene, offering a scalable solution to the global challenge of textile waste. Detailed in ACS Materials Letters, the research was led by Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, alongside first author SeongHyeon Kim and co-authors Duo Xu, Volodymyr Korolovych, Domingo Flores-Hernandez, Kaniz Moriam, and Daniel Braconnier.
The MIT team demonstrated that garments crafted from the engineered yarn can be melted down at the end of their lifecycle and respun into fresh fiber or molded into solid plastic hardware, such as buttons and belt buckles.
ABB and Swedish textile impact company Syre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore how automation, electrification, and digital technologies can support the development of Syre’s first industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycling facility in Gia Lai province, Vietnam.
The exploratory collaboration provides a framework to assess how advanced process control, quality optimization, and electrical infrastructure can enable safe, efficient, and scalable production of circular polyester.
UK retailer Aldi and dairy cooperative Arla Foods have partnered with recycling tech specialist Polytag to initiate an operational pilot aimed at tracking milk bottles through the UK recycling stream using advanced ultraviolet (UV) tagging technology.
Building on an initial pilot conducted in 2023, the collaboration seeks to gather granular, data-driven insights into how packaging moves beyond the point of sale and behaves within municipal waste systems.