Puma has unveiled a plain white t-shirt made entirely from textile waste using a new biorecycling technology developed by French company Carbios.
This achievement marks a step towards creating clothing from textile waste, reducing reliance on virgin materials.
The Carbios biorecycling technology breaks down mixed and coloured textile waste into its building blocks using enzymes. This process produces biorecycled polyester with a quality comparable to oil-based virgin polyester.
Anne-Laure Descours, chief sourcing officer of Puma, emphasises that the company’s goal is to source 100 per cent of its polyester from textile waste.
“Today’s announcement is an important milestone towards achieving this and making our industry more circular,” said Descours.
“We now need to work together to make sure we can scale up this technology to make the largest possible impact. We’re excited to be part of this breakthrough and setting new standards for fibre-to-fibre recycling.”
This project represents a milestone for the consortium’s objective of demonstrating a closed fibre-to-fibre loop at an industrial scale using Carbio’s biorecycling process.
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