PCW milestone for Recover
A new agreement between Spanish recycled cotton fibre producer Recover and Swedish textiles sorting firm Sysav is to result in the former securing a regular supply of post-consumer waste (PCW), comprising at least 95% cotton, beginning this year.
Building on a partnership first formed between the two parties in 2020, the intention over the long-term is for volumes of PCW provided to Recover by Sysav to increase from 2023, onwards.
This will support the Spanish producer’s mission to scale up integration of the resource to over 40% of its recycled fibre inputs by the year 2025, it said.
Sysav’s Siptex complex will take centre stage in this endeavour as “the world’s first” large-scale, automated facility with capacity to sort textiles by colour and composition, in order to help avoid differences in quality and variation otherwise observed in PCW textile recycling.
Chief sustainability officer at Recover, Helene Smits, described the progression of her company’s work with Sysav as representing the next step towards achieving its circularity-minded targets for PCW, revealing that the two businesses had prepared for this evolution by working together to optimise processes for roughly one year prior.
“Our mutual exchange of technical expertise proves that close collaboration throughout the textile value chain is key to turning the textile waste problem into circular flows of sustainable raw material,” added Sysav business developer Stefan Poldrugac.
Read more about Recover's approach to post-consumer cotton textile waste in WSA here.
Image: Recover.
