Collection 4 Clothes launched in 2020 and have already supported numerous charities, including Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity, World Cancer Care, ARUK amongst many more others. We offer a free service, encouraging people to donate their pre-loved clothing, fashion accessories, bric-a-brac and unwanted gifts, using clothes collection bags delivered to homes across the UK. Everything we collect is then sent to countries around the world and sold at affordable, localised prices. Unsellable items are ethically recycled, with the materials repurposed to create local products. Collection 4 Clothes offers a free and efficient service. We encourage people to donate their pre-loved clothing, fashion accessories, bric-a-brac and unwanted gifts. By cleaning out your wardrobe, you will not only help give your clothes and other items a new lease of life, but you will also help raise essential funds for Charity. We are proud of this win-win solution that provides environmental benefits, raises money and recycles clothes into lovable items for someone else. How else is Collection 4 Clothes committing to supporting sustainability? Collection bags are made from 40% recycled materials and are oxo-biodegradable. This is where additives are added to the plastic to help it break down faster and more effectively. Collection 4 Clothes has also partnered with an organisation by helping to fund tree planting and other environmental impact projects across the world on a monthly basis.
Circular Restitch
Circular Restitch is a sourcing company based in Pakistan. Our production partners have decades of experience recycling post-industrial and post-consumer waste, so we deliver quality products at a promising price. We offer recycled high-quality cotton, yarns, and sewn fabric products for eco-conscious brands worldwide. Beyond sourcing, we design customized traceability solutions that align with our clients’ sustainability goals. Additionally, Circular Restitch actively trades in textile waste and imports post-consumer materials from international markets to boost the circular economy.
Circular Textiles Foundation
The Circular Textiles Foundation (CTF) is an independent certifier and training provider dedicated to accelerating the transition to a circular textile economy by advocating for Design for Recyclability. Through rigorous product certification and industry training and collaboration, CTF provides brands, retailers and recyclers with the tools and standards needed to make fibre to fibre recycling a commercial reality. The CTF’s ‘Infinitee’ mark is a certification trade mark granted by the UKIPO (2024) and EUIPO (2026), carrying legal recognition across all 27 EU member states and the UK. As a certification mark, it provides a legal guarantee that goods bearing the mark meet a defined standard — in this case, that the garment is designed to be recycled.
Circle-8 Textile Ecosystems
Circle-8 is building an ecosystem and infrastructure with industry collaborators to unlock textile-to-textile recycling in the UK. We are driving the design, build and commissioning of a network of automated textile sorting and pre-processing facilities (ATSPs) for non-reusable textiles in the UK, as a pre-cursor to regional and industrial scale mechanical and chemical recycling plants.
Circ Inc.
Circ® is proving that textile recycling is scalable. With patented textile-to-textile recycling technology, Circ turns discarded polycotton blended fabric into virgin equivalent material. By separating and recovering polyester and cellulose from polycotton, Circ’s breakthrough technology is among the first market-tested solutions for one of the industry’s most common and least recyclable materials. Headquartered in Danville, Virginia, and expanding globally with its first industrial-scale facility underway in France, Circ is building the infrastructure for a circular fashion economy at scale. The company’s technology is backed by leading global investors and its materials, Circ® Lyocell and Circ® Polyester, are already in use through collaborations with leading brands spanning luxury to mass market.
CENTEXBEL
Centexbel-VKC is a collective research and technical center that aims to reinforce the competitive position of the textile & plastic converting companies. To fulfil this mission, Centexbel-VKC offers an extensive range of services to the industry, including research & development, testing, certification, consultancy, and training. Centexbel-VKC employs 180 enthusiastic, highly educated men and women. Through continuous innovation in process and products, Centexbel-VKC’s R&D ranges from basic research to applied research; always keeping in mind the industrial needs and opportunities. Sustainability is a common thread in our activities; especially in our research strategy, which is implemented by recycling materials, focusing on resource efficiency and environmentally friendly materials and processes. In short, Centexbel-VKC helps your company to translate ideas into concrete concepts and products. We will also test their quality, composition, recyclability and legal conformity and verify together with you the necessity and manner in which to proceed to protect your intellectual property rights.
CDC STUDIO SRL
CDC Studio is an innovation hub pioneering circular solutions for textile waste generated by the fashion and manufacturing industries. Powered by its patented MIKTÒS technology, CDC Studio gives new life to mixed textile waste—production offcuts and unsold inventory—by transforming it into a high-performance thermoplastic polymer. This breakthrough material offers a sustainable alternative to virgin plastic, enabling the creation of durable, next-generation products with a significantly reduced environmental footprint.
CARBIOS
CARBIOS is a pioneering biotech company transforming the future of textile recycling through enzyme-based solutions. Focusing on polyester (PET), CARBIOS has developed a breakthrough biorecycling process that breaks down PET into its original monomers. In collaboration with major brands in a “fiber-to-fiber” consortium On, Patagonia, PUMA, PVH Corp., and Salomon, CARBIOS produced the world’s first biorecycled garment, marking a major milestone in sustainable fashion. With its demonstration plant operational since 2021 and the world’s first industrial biorecycling facility planned to restart construction in 2025, CARBIOS is accelerating the transition to a circular economy for textiles. | Carbios is a pioneering biotech company transforming the future of textile recycling through enzyme-based solutions. Focusing on polyester (PET), Carbios has developed a breakthrough biorecycling process that breaks down PET into its original monomers. In collaboration with major brands in a “fiber-to-fiber” consortium On, Patagonia, PUMA, PVH Corp., and Salomon, Carbios produced the world’s first biorecycled garment, marking a major milestone in sustainable fashion. Let’s accelerate the transition to a circular economy for textiles.
Brightfiber Textiles
Brightfiber Textiles is a circular B2B supplier of fibers, yarns, fabrics, and collections. The company operates within a fully closed-loop system, where local post-consumer textiles are transformed into new collections. Visit the website for more information
BlockTexx
BlockTexx® is a clean technology company that separates polyester and cotton from post consumer blended textiles to deliver textile to textile products through supply chains in Asia. Our S.O.F.T.™ (separation of fibre technology) process is proven at commercial scale (10kta plant) supported by a business model that includes collection, sortation, decommissioning and a proprietary blockchain system for full traceability and provenance.