Textile Recycling
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
the Green Blueprint 
How I Built This
3 statements about Textile Recycling, every show
Existing discarded clothing could supply all future garment manufacturing needs
“We believe we have all the clothes we need to make all the clothes we'll ever need, and when you look at the scale of this industry, it's massive, and a lot of it ends up in landfill within a year or two, and so there's a lot of material there that is in a lin…”
Kibbe: No scaled infrastructure exists to recycle plastic textiles into new textiles
“Once a plastic goes into a textile right now whether it's virgin plastic or, right, recycled plastic from bottles, it's not, we don't have the infrastructure or the sorting capabilities or any of really the technology at scale to turn that back. Into a new tex…”