It is one of the industry’s toughest nuts to crack: taking clothing that has been worn (hopefully for years) and washed many times over to make new fibre that can be spun into yarn and woven again into fabric to begin a new cycle of long-term use and laundering. CETI, a technical research centre specialising in textiles for innovation and sustainability, claims to have made headway and presented a series of machines it has engineered to deliver yarns with a high proportion of recycled cotton content.  

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