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Breathable new line of footwear

Related Keywords: functional materials for footwear, Higg Index, highly-convincing fashion, recycled clothing fibers, recycled textiles, reusing valuable and scarce raw materials, sustainability strategy, sustainable alternatives, Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Dr. Rudiger Fox, CEO at Sympatex Technologies explains that, “It is our conviction that our firm commitment to sustainability is serving as an impetus for innovation, becomes again evident in this new footwear line of materials in a highly-convincing fashion,” Also, Fox adds “While many market partners view sustainability as a stranglehold on creativity, maintaining a clear focus with our innovation processes helps us to concentrate our energy, and thus produce new solutions for our customers at a much faster pace.

Making promotional apparel using recycled materials

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In the current fashion market, the most widely used fabrics are textile blends, which have proven hard-to-recycle using traditional methods and technologies. In a bid to close the recyclability gap, H&M's charitable arm, the H&M Foundation, last year opened a pre-industrial sized ‘Garment to Garment’ recycling facility in Hong Kong. The facility uses innovative hydrothermal recycling technology to separate textile blends and will be used by H&M exclusively to begin with.

IKEA U.S. to take lead in turning used mattresses into resources

Related Keywords: 18 million mattresses disposed, goal of zero waste to landfill, IKEA U.S. announced, includes old mattresses of any brand, picked up when new IKEA mattresses delivered, recycling all of its used mattresses, sustainability strategy, U.S. each year, waste to resources

In U.S. each year an estimated 18 million mattresses with box springs are disposed, resulting in approximately 50,000 mattresses a day ending up in landfills across America. With a goal of zero waste to landfill, IKEA U.S. announced recycling all of its used mattresses, this includes old mattresses (any brand) that are picked up when new IKEA mattresses are delivered. As much recycling as possible will take place to keep with its sustainability strategy of ‘waste to resources.’

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