Sri Lanka, Sept. 19 -- With the aim to investigate economically viable and scalable solutions for cellulosic chemical recycling to enable a closed-loop system converting textile waste - of cotton and cotton-blend materials, to produce new man-made cellulosic fibres, Fashion for Good the global initiative set to make all fashion good, launched the Full Circle Textiles Project: Scaling Innovations in Cellulosic Recycling, a first of its kind consortium project.

Focusing on cellulosic fibres, this Project aims to validate and eventually, scale promising technologies in chemical recycling from a select group of innovators as 73% of the clothing we produce is sent to landfill or is incinerated and of all new clothing made, less than 1% of the...