Evrnu creates lyocell from 100% post-consumer waste
Textile innovations company Evrnu has launched its first commercially available lyocell material made from chemically recycling post-consumer cotton textile waste, and which it claims can be recycled up to 10 times.
The first product made of 100% NuCycl r-lyocell is a t-shirt from US-based designer Carlos Campos.
Stacy Flynn, co-founder and CEO of Evrnu, said: “We have at least a 20-year push to innovate around climate change to make up for the past 100 years of collateral industrial damage.
“Our team and partners are dedicated and aligned to outperforming and scaling textile recycling solutions to bring our industry into balance with natural systems.”
Evrnu says it has tuned its technologies to fit into existing manufacturing infrastructure.
The company, which was founded in 2014, has raised $31 million in funding and is building a facility in the southeast US to demonstrate its fibre regeneration technologies at commercial scale. This facility will service 17,000 metric tons of pulp and 2,000 tons of fibre per year.
Brands that are working with Evrnu include Adidas, Levi’s, Stella Mc Cartney and Target.
