The apparel industry is feeling pressure on resources and pressure from consumers to up their game in sustainability. 

Now, brands, retailers, and manufacturers have an incredible opportunity to catalyse closed loop fashion.

At the other end of the chain, the second hand industry has seen difficult changes: Clothing reuse markets are soft, margins are shrinking, and import bans are looming in East Africa. 

On top of these issues, the quality of clothing continues to worsen, which decreases the value for perspective buyers. 

Solutions for these two issues are connected, and solving these critical challenges at the same time will ensure a sustainable future for the both industries.

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The Fibersort team is innovating technology to enable high value textile to textile recycling (creating new textiles from old ones). This is key to reducing the negative impact of the apparel industry and increasing the value of unwearable textiles for the second hand industry.

The Fibersort automatically sorts large volumes of mixed post-consumer textiles by fiber type, and it does so with a high degree of accuracy. Crucially, this will supply high value textile to textile recyclers with large volumes of quality-assured feedstock for their processes.

Your expertise can shape a better future for the industry. Preview the Fibersort before it's widely available and contribute to its development. Gain early access to Circle Market to find new customers for your textile waste or simply test the platform and try digital textile trading. 

Join us on the cutting edge. 

Experience the technology. 

Tell us what you think and what your needs are.

Circle Economy's Circle Market is a digital textile trading platform. Through the platform, Fibersort users can sell their recycling feedstock to high value textile to textile recyclers while brands, retailers, and manufacturers can do the same with their textile waste. 

This comprehensive solution will enable a closed loop apparel system to flourish, create new vertical markets for the second hand industry, and reduce the negative environmental impact of fashion.

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