Accelerating Textile Circularity

Milliken joined Accelerating Circularity to advance end of life solutions for textiles. Accelerating Circularity’s core work is to facilitate collaborations between the industry actors in textile-to-textile supply systems through the execution of “commercial” trials. This work brings the entire supply network together to develop the products and processes that have the best chance of success to implement circular supply systems with existing capabilities.

Accelerating Circularity announced that it has begun the testing of commercial textile-to-textile supply systems in the US with financial support from Walmart. The initiative aims to speed up the textile industry’s move from linear to circular by moving 'spent' textiles through an entire circular system, from collection, sorting, pre-processing, fiber production, yarn spinning and fabric production, through product design, manufacture, marketing and retail. The trials will leverage new systems and technology for the digital identification of products and materials - to create the transparency and 'product passports' required in the circular economy.