KEY PARTNERS
We collaborate with key stakeholders across the circular ecosystem.
To help realise a circular economy of textiles, we are proud to have been working with a consortium of players across the entire textile value chain within the ACT UK project - creating the blueprint for new systems and innovative sorting facilities. If you aren’t highlighted below, please get in touch. We’d love to explore how to build the ecosystem together.
THE UK ECOSYSTEM
Paving the way to circularity for textiles
We are not starting from scratch and we are not working alone. We are proud of the partnerships we have formed across the textiles ecosystem.
Circle-8 has been building the partnerships needed for an advanced collection and pre-sorting approach to separate re-usable textiles from non-reusable textiles. The ecosystem is being developed to unlock some of the key economic hurdles faced in current post-consumer textiles flows, so that all parts of the circular value chain are economically viable, digitised and traceable, including the ATSP. We are working with retail partners to take economic responsibility for their non-reusable textiles generated during the transition to fibre-to-fibre recycling infrastructure.
THE HOW
Circular textiles ecosystem.
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Non-reusable textiles
Recycled/circular
raw materials
Fibre / yarn
Fabric
Garment/product
manufacturing
Retailers
Consumers
Collection
Mechanical
recycling
Reusable textiles
Resale/reuse/rental
Chemical
recycling
Automated textile sorting and preprocessing facility
THE HOW
Circular ecosystem and business model.
THE HOW
Circular ecosystem and business model.
Recycled/circular
raw materials
Fibre/yarn
Fabric
Garment/product manufacturing
Retailers
Consumers
Collection
Reusable textiles
Resale/reuse/rental
Nonreusable textiles
Automated textile sorting and preprocessing facility
Mechanical
Recycling
Chemical
Recycling
Circular Materials Programme for brands and retailers.
Circle-8’s Circular Materials Delivery Programme is a co-development programme to accelerate retailers' progress towards decarbonisation in Tier 4 raw materials sourcing and 2030 targets. Working one to one we develop cost-effective, environmentally positive, legislation-ready plans that take responsibility for UK pre and post-consumer non-reusable textiles generated by customers and deliver recycled content requirements, accessed via regional sourcing networks.
