Tangshan Sanyou Commits to Scaling Up the Production of Low-Carbon Alternative Fibres
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China's leading MMCF producer Tangshan Sanyou, textile-to-textile recycling company Renewcell, and award-winning environmental not-for-profit Canopy, shared a stage at the Shanghai Yarn Expo to announce their shared commitment to grow China’s production of circular, low-impact MMCF derived from recycled textiles.
Sanyou has committed to scale up the production of low-carbon, circular fibre, up to 200,000 tons per year, adjusted to market demands, which would be a nearly five-fold increase from their previous Next Gen production. It’s an effort designed to meet the growing brand need for low-impact textiles, whilst also contributing to China’s ambitious climate targets, and supporting the conservation of climate-critical Ancient and Endangered Forests around the world.
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Over 300 million trees are cut down every year for fashion fabrics like rayon/viscose, many from the most climate and biodiversity-critical forests on the planet. Instead of cutting down trees to make t-shirts, dresses, and yoga pants, Next Gen solutions utilize low-carbon alternative materials that would otherwise go to waste – from discarded textiles to wheat straw to food scraps. Compared to conventional wood fibre, Next Gen Solutions have roughly five times less impact on biodiversity, 95 – 130% less greenhouse gas emissions, 88 – 100% less land use, and four tonnes less CO2/tonne of product.
Tangshan Sanyou’s commitment and efforts in the recycling and re-use of waste textiles will help to align China’s textile sector with the dual-carbon objectives, as well as China’s visionary plan to recycle a quarter of its textile waste and use it to produce two million tonnes of recycled fibre annually by 2025.
