New Pathways for China’s Textile Industry

As global demand for clothing continues to rise, the textile and apparel industry has become a significant contributor to climate change. In China, the world’s largest textile producer and exporter, rapid urbanization, income growth, and shifting consumption patterns have driven a surge in demand for apparel. According to TranSpread – which aims to help academic […]

New Project on Textiles: Stretching Circularity

In February 2026, the organization Fashion for Good and partners launched the project “Stretching Circularity”, which is “dedicated to accelerating the adoption of lower-impact elastane alternatives that are compatible with circular textile systems”. By validating bio-based and recycled elastane solutions through pilot-scale testing and demonstrator garments, the initiative would aim to remove one of the […]

Why the Textile Recycling Revolution Needs More Than Just Tech

The global textile recycling market is finally shifting to an industrial scale. For years, progress was stalled by a fundamental lack of synchronization across the value chain. Now, decisive policy action is providing the essential financial anchor needed to bridge this gap. As Louisa Hoyes, Segment Director – Textiles at TOMRA Recycling, highlights, the sorting […]

Greece: Firm Plans to Improve the Situation

The country still sends nearly 80 percent of its waste to landfills, despite the investment in treatment and recycling infrastructure. In October 2025, pan-European news network euronews.com reported that Greece still faces a waste problem. The situation would be particularly critical in Athens and the wider area of the Greek capital. “The streets of Greek […]

Global Certified-Circular Plastic Market to Expand

The global certified-circular plastic market, estimated at 2.03 billion US-Dollar in 2025, is forecast to expand to 5.77 billion US-Dollar by 2035, according to Towards Packaging, a sister firm of the international active consulting and market intelligence company Precedence Research. As described, technological advancements and the increasing need for investments in infrastructure development fuel this […]

IFAT Munich 2026: Focus on Municipal Water

According to the organizers, cities and municipalities are under significant pressure to improve water and wastewater management due to stricter regulations, climate change impacts, and increasing investment demands, all while facing limited resources. As emphasized, IFAT Munich 2026 will show, which technical, regulatory and organizational solutions municipalities need now. From May 4 to 7, 2026, […]

Driving Business towards a Circular Economy

Thai plastic product manufacturer Royce Universal Co., Ltd. can recycle around 15,000 tons of post-consumer PET per year, turning it into food-contact material for packaging applications. “We do not think plastic scrap is waste. We consider it as our resource,” explained Touchawatt Techamongkoljit, CEO of Royce Universal Co. Ltd. “Our goal is to recycle as […]

Mattress Recycling: Worldwide but not Everywhere

According to numbers of Verified Market Reports, the global mattress recycling service market was valued at 1.2 billion US-Dollar in 2024 and is projected to reach 2.5 billion US-Dollar by 2033. The increasing demand for sustainable disposal methods and recycling initiatives is expected to drive an annual growth rate of 4.8 percent from 2022 to […]

UK Wastepolitics in Times of Change

“Of the 26 million tons of waste produced in the UK, 12 million tons are recycled, and 14 million tons are sent to landfill sites. This gives us an average recycling rate of 45 percent”, waste management company Recycling Bins.Co.UK states on its homepage. But recycling in the UK is a much more complicated, difficult […]

Plastics and Circularity – Caught between Necessity and Potential

K 2025 from 8 to 15 October 2025 in Düsseldorf (Germany) – according to the organizers “the world’s No. 1 trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry” – has set itself the goal of addressing the central issues of our times. One of its three “Hot Topics” reads “Shaping the Circular Economy”. For the […]