Building Circular Systems, Next phase of work to Create Scale in textile-to-textile recycling systems
02/13/24—Accelerating Circularity is proud to announce the launch of the next phase of work, Building Circular Systems (BCS). The goal is to expand our work on circular textile-to-textile systems that will enable the reduction of the textile industry’s GHG impacts and reduce the volume of textiles going to landfill and incineration.
Accelerating Circularity receives $1.5 million from the Walmart Foundation to Build Circular Systems
12/13/23—Walmart Foundation has graciously funded Accelerating Circularity’s new phase of work "Building Circular Systems." The work intends to build on our earlier success and learnings with a three-pronged approach to continue to demonstrate the technical feasibility of textile-to-textile recycling systems
ACCELERATING CIRCULARITY launches the Reality Zone and Hosts Circularity Live Event with Bank & Vogue and Beyond Retro
9/20/23—Accelerating Circularity will be hosting a workshop at the Textile Exchange conference in London to share what can technically be done with mechanically recycled cotton. The workshop is called the “Reality Zone,” highlighting commercially available mechanically recycled cotton fibers, fabrics, and garments.
Accelerating Circularity launches the Alliance of Chemical Textile Recycling (ACTR)
9/28/23—Accelerating Circularity has created a working group, the Alliance of Textile Chemical Recyclers (ACTR), to meet and address the textile industry with a common voice to facilitate accurate information on textile chemical recycling.
US Trials Update: Fall 2023
9/20/23—Accelerating Circularity shares Fall 2023 updates on the US textile-to-textile trials.
Goodwill Industries and Accelerating Circularity Test Textile-to-Textile Feedstock Hubs with Generous Grant from the Walmart Foundation
9/7/23—The Walmart Foundation has granted $1.2 million to support Goodwill Industries International Inc. and Accelerating Circularity to develop skills, systems, and infrastructure at participating Goodwill organizations to transform unsellable textile donations into recycling feedstock. This transformation is critical to the circular textile economy.
Accelerating Circularity Unveils Recycled Tshirt
6/13/23—Accelerating Circularity unveils a 100% cotton t-shirt made through textile-to-textile recycling as part of its mission to turn textile waste into new materials.
The Playbook
6/7/23—The ACP Playbook is a step-by-step guide on how to move into a circular business model.
ACP has worked in collaboration with every node of the textile supply chain to run trials that have been successful in creating fabrics with recycled content, both knits and wovens. ACP collected this information into a playbook designed to help the entire industry learn from our approach – by collaborating across the value chain and piloting using the combined expertise.
The playbook highlights scalability in textile-to-textile recycling and helps one understand how to move into circular systems by finding solutions to problems that exist, and identifying gaps to see what is actionable today.
Project Europe Update: Spring 2023
3/21/23—Accelerating Circularity shares updates on the European project; Currently in the pilot phase, ACPE is now pressure testing the circular system of textile-to-textile recycling that ACP researched, mapped, modeled, and linked during 2021.
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Accelerating Circularity Catalyzes Connections for Textile-to-Textile Recycling
1/25/23—Accelerating Circularity releases a comprehensive directory of international recyclers available today to catalyze connections between recyclers and the rest of the textile value chain including collectors, mills, brands, and retailers. The comprehensive directory of textile recyclers is inclusive of the various commercial technologies for chemical and mechanical recycling of Polyester and Cellulosics.
ACCELERATING CIRCULARITY Launches Cellulosic Textile-To-Textile Trials In Europe
3/15/23—Accelerating Circularity announces the launch of Cellulosics textile-to-textiles trials in Europe as continuation of the Polyester textile-to-textile trials launched in mid-2022. ACPE has been working to define the products and value chains for cellulosics; 4 cellulosics value chains have been defined thus far.
Provided by EcoTextile News
Project Europe Update: Fall 2022
11/14/22—Accelerating Circularity Europe would like to share our accomplishments to date. ACPE has successfully conducted research, mapped, and modeled, created new linkages, and launched pilot trials for textile-to-textile recycling.
Digital ID — the key to fashion’s circular future? How a next-gen barcode for every product could transform commerce
9/27/22— EON, Accelerating Circularity, WM and more global leadership across the fashion retail industry announce an “Industry-Aligned Action Plan: Digital ID for Circular Systems.” The report illuminates the role that Digital ID technology can play in fashion’s circular economy, outlines the challenges and opportunities, and codifies the industry’s best practices, roadmap, and solutions.
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Bank and Vogue’s Steven Bethell joins Accelerating Circularity’s Board of Directors
08/29/22—Steven Bethell of the Bank and Vogue group joins Accelerating Circularity’s board of directors. Bethell, a 25 year veteran of the sustainable textile industry, brings expertise in secondhand resale and vintage retail to the organization.
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Accelerating Circularity Europe Launches Polyester Textile-to-Textile Trials
07/14/22—Accelerating Circularity moves into textile-to-textile trials in Europe through their European division, Accelerating Circularity Europe. The trials will allow them to demonstrate what is possible with textile recycling at scale. The first trials focus on post-consumer and post-industrial polyester.
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Textile World - Conveners of the Textile Industry Jointly Support a Digital Platform to Enhance Scaleup of Circular Economy
01/26/22—Through their own projects and together through pre-competitive industry-wide collaboration, Accelerating Circularity, Fashion for Good, Global Fashion Agenda’s Circular Fashion Partnership, Reverse Resources, SMART, and WRAP are supporting the scaling of digital solutions to create the infrastructure for textile recycling. Reverse Resources is launching one such platform for collectors, sorters, and pre-processors – its goal is to facilitate textile-to-textile recycling.
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ISPO - Accelerating Circularity Project Embarks on US Trials and Plans European Trials
11/22/21—The circular economy has become the ubiquitous term and potential sustainable savior within the textile and apparel sector, in how we can reduce waste at all levels of the supply chain as well as put back into the supply chain end-of-life garments for renewal.
Sourcing Journal-Accelerating Circularity Puts Spent Denim and Textiles to Good Use
10/21/21—Trials will showcase the ability to mechanically and chemically recycle cotton, and polyester and cotton blends from post-consumer and post-industrial feedstocks that meet commercial requirements. Accelerating Circularity has been working to identify circular systems for textile-to-textile products for the past 18 months.
Innovation in Textiles - Accelerating Circularity to Start US Trials
10/20/21—After extensive efforts to research, map, and identify expertise and infrastructure to accelerate the move to circular systems in textiles, Accelerating Circularity (ACP) plans to move to the trial phase in the USA to demonstrate what is possible, and to measure environmental savings. Similar efforts are in the works for Europe.
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Textile World—Putting Textiles To Good Use: Accelerating Circularity Calls For System Trial Partners
07/20/21—Accelerating Circularity Inc. today released plans for U.S. trials of commercial scale textile-to-textile systems in its latest report, “Putting Textiles to Good Use.” The report concisely presents the rationale and goals for the trials, including ambitious content minimums of 40-percent recycled blends and 20-percent post-consumer inputs for all trials.
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Blue and Green Tomorrow - How Eco-Fashion Companies Can Participate in the Circular Economy
08/05/21—All companies need to have an adequate waste management solution. This involves making sure that they can manage all of their textile waste.
Research has shown that around 120,000 tons of textile waste are recorded and produced per year in the US.
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Sourcing Journal—Accelerating Circularity Launches European Project
06/01/21—Accelerating Circularity has launched of a new project based in Europe as it builds on its work researching, mapping, modeling and linking circular textile-to-textile systems in the United States.
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Textile World— Accelerating Circularity Launches European Project
05/27/21—Founding members signal potential for global scale. “The launch of Accelerating Circularity Europe exemplifies this approach and advances our goal of enabling the industry to achieve a scaled, global, circular textile system.” - Karla Magruder
Ecotextile—US Circular Textile System Trials
06/08/21—The Accelerating Circularity trials will move spent textiles through the entire circular system, from collection, sorting, feedstock pre-processing, fiber production, yarn spinning, and fabric production through product design, manufacture, marketing, and retail.
Innovation in Textiles— European Project Launched
05/27/21—Building on the success of its work researching, mapping, modeling, and linking circular textile-to-textile systems in the United States, Accelerating Circularity today announced the launch of a new project based in Europe.
Just Style—Walmart Foundation Injects $1.2m into Accelerating Circularity
01/20/21—The Walmart Foundation has pumped US$1.2m into Accelerating Circularity for its circular textile-to-textile systems trials using spent textiles generated on the East Coast of the US.
EcoTextile News—Circularity project gets $1.2M from Walmart Foundation
01/19/21—Accelerating Circularity has bagged a US$1.2 million research grant from the Walmart Foundation to explore circular textile-to-textile systems generated from fabric waste on the East Coast of the USA.
Textile World—Textile-To-Textile Circular Systems Trials Awarded Grant Accelerating Circularity Receives $1.2 Million
01/19/21—The Walmart Foundation awarded Accelerating Circularity a grant of $1.2 million for circular textile-to-textile systems trials using spent textiles generated on the East Coast of the United States.
GreenBiz—What will it take for 2021 to be a groundbreaking year for circular fashion?
01/15/21—120,000. That’s the number of tons of post-industrial textile waste produced in the United States annually.
Home Textiles Today—Textile circularity looks to scale in the U.S.
10/21/20—Accelerating Circularity to discuss East Coast pilot program at Material Changes conference
Textile World—Accelerating Circularity® Releases Research & Mapping Report
10/06/20—Accelerating Circularity Inc. has released a report with the results of their research on the potential for circular supply chains on the east coast of the United States.
EcoTextile News—Report probes potential of circular textile industry
10/08/20—The Accelerating Circularity project has released the results of its research on the potential for circular textile supply chains on the east coast of the USA.
Architectural Digest—5 Sustainable Textile Practices You Can Implement Right Now
10/04/20—Fabrics make up an increasingly large portion of landfill waste in the U.S. Here’s how you can contribute to a circular textile economy in your next residential project
EcoTextile News—Project reveals huge scale of circularity challenge
08/05/20—The Accelerating Circularity project to speed up the move from a linear to a circular textile industry has published its initial research findings which reveal more than 85 per cent of apparel waste is currently going to landfill or incineration in its target region.
GreenBiz—Coyuchi, full circularity and the challenge of textile recycling
04/29/20—Home textiles company Coyuchi has been ahead of the curve on sustainable business practices since its founding almost 30 years ago.
"The original founder was really one of the pioneers in organic cotton, bringing organic cotton into textile supply," said Coyuchi CEO Eileen Mockus, previously a sourcing executive for retailer Williams-Sonoma. "Over the years, we have really focused on the pillars of the brand, which are organic and natural fibers."
Waste 360—Textile Exchange Launches Accelerating Circularity Project
03/19/20—According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the textile industry and consumers create 15 million tons of textile waste annually in the United States alone. This project will help research and map how the industry could move from a take-make-waste system to a circular one, in order to avoid the massive amounts of textile waste put into landfills annually.
PRWeb—Textile Exchange Launches Accelerating Circularity Project to Help Reduce Textile Waste
03/11/20—Textile Exchange is launching a project to help reduce textile waste, called the Accelerating Circularity Project.
Just Style—Textile Waste Focus of Accelerating Circularity Project
03/05/20—An apparel industry collaborative project has launched, aimed at accelerating the textile sector’s move from linear to circular.
Textile Exchange—NEW INITIATIVE: ACCELERATING CIRCULARITY TO ELIMINATE TEXTILE WASTE
03/04/20—Accelerating Circularity, a new apparel industry collaborative project, has launched efforts to accelerate textile industry’s move from linear to circular.
Sport Textiles—Big names collaborate in push for circular industry
02/25/20—Clothing and fibre companies including VF, Unifi and Lenzing, have invested in a new initiative to accelerate the textile industry’s move from a linear to circular model – meaning textiles will be reused and not discarded.
Textiles in the News—Sustainability Series: Apparel Industry Group Launches Project to Move Textile Industry from Linear to Circular
02/25/20—A broad apparel industry coalition is taking the issue of textile waste head on as the industry continues to explore the next generation of textiles. The apparel industry group has launched a new collaborative project under the banner of Accelerating Circularity, with a mandate of eliminating textile waste in the supply chain.