Recover(TM) offers handcrafted recycled cotton fibre

While popular across the fashion industry, cotton is an incredibly energy-intensive fibre to produce, requiring high levels of fertiliser and water to grow, using an estimate of 2,700 litres of water to make one cotton shirt. Escalating volumes of textile waste caused by the fast fashion movement have led to 17 million tons of textile waste ended up in landfills in 2018, representing a loss of valuable resources and materials while contributing to increasing greenhouse gas emissions through the decomposition of these garments.

Recover recycles industrial and pre and post-consumer cotton waste, replacing the need to cultivate cotton, limiting the use of dyes through its ColorBlend system, and reducing textile landfill waste. Recover uses mechanical recycling processes and proprietary technology to provide cost-competitive, maximum performance fibre for both rotor and ring spinning applications.

Process

Used clothes and garment production waste are submitted for recycling

Recover™ recycled textile waste into new Recover™ fibre.

Recover™ fiber are made into new yarns.

​​Recover™ fiber are made into new fabrics.

New products are created from Recover™ fabrics.

Per the Higg Material Sustainability Index, Recover recycled cotton fibre has the lowest environmental impact score in the world.

Recover is set to increase its production to 200,000 metric tons of recycled cotton fibre per year by 2025. This will save nearly three trillion litres of water each year, equivalent to the drinking water consumed by 3 billion people on an annual basis, and allow 500,000 acres of land to be directed away from cotton cultivation for other uses.