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It’s always been about growing more cotton, using more water, spraying more chemicals and pumping more oil to sell more of the season’s must-haves. Bigger, faster, cheaper and more wasteful.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The fashion industry is one of the largest polluters of clean water and users of virgin raw materials and energy, and discarded clothing fills global landfills with thousands of tonnes of textile waste every year. It’s the opposite of sustainable.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Circulose® is a branded ‘dissolving pulp’ product that Renewcell makes from 100% textile waste such as worn-out jeans and production scraps. Dissolving pulp is what the textile industry uses to make viscose, lyocell, modal, acetate other types of regenerated fibers (also called ‘man-made cellulosic fibers’). 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