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Source: RecyclingToday
By pivoting to circular materials and process optimization, the company reports it has eliminated over 743,000 single-use plastic bags and replaced 1.5 million twist cable ties with eco-friendly alternatives. Most notably, the transition of 35,500 blister packages to 100% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) has resulted in a verified 50% reduction in packaging-related CO2 emissions for selected fiber modules.
2025 was a step in the right direction. Removing single-use plastic items and moving more product families to recyclable and sustainable materials show what’s possible when sustainability is designed in, not added on. We’ve proven that better product packaging not only cuts emissions but protects performance and simplifies logistics.
Lana Ollier, Head of global sustainability, Huber+Suhner
The initiative reflects a strategic shift from “added-on” environmental measures to a “designed-in” philosophy. According to Lana Ollier, Head of Global Sustainability at Huber+Suhner, the milestones achieved in 2025 prove that technical performance and ecological responsibility are not mutually exclusive.
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.