Zara launches first collection made from multi-fiber textile waste
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Inditex's flagship brand, Zara, is continuing to develop its sustainability strategy. The brand has announced the launch of its first collection created from multi-fibre recycled fabrics. This pioneering project, aimed at addressing circularity, was developed in collaboration with the textile recycling company Circ, which is now available in 11 countries worldwide.
Zara and Circ's groundbreaking initiative aims to tackle one of the biggest sustainability challenges in the fashion industry: separating polyester and cotton fibres in order to facilitate garment recycling and propose an alternative to their end-of-life cycle. The goal of the two companies is to "develop new recycled raw materials for the manufacturing of new garments."
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Virginia-based Circ has developed a heat and chemical process for recycling clothes made from polyester-cotton blends. Using Circ's technology, Zara has developed a collection featuring lyocell garments in which 50% of the poly-cotton waste fibre is used, as well as polyester garments with 43% of this fibre derived from textile waste.
