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Polyamide Recycling: Discover REC in Video

What if complex textiles currently considered waste could become a new resource for industry tomorrow? This is the ambition of REC, which is developing a technology dedicated to recovering and regenerating the polyamide contained in these materials. Discover our new motion design film to easily understand our technology, our approach and our vision for circularity.
September 15, 2026 / ,

World Recycling Day: Why Textile Recycling Is Essential to the Circular Economy

Why is textile recycling essential to the circular economy? Giving used textiles a second life helps reduce reliance on virgin resources and develop new recycled raw materials. From collection and sorting to polyamide recycling, discover why cooperation between the different stakeholders across the textile value chain is essential to accelerating the transition towards a more circular economy.
March 18, 2025 /

Slow Fashion: Why Reuse and Recycling Are Essential for a More Circular Fashion Industry

Can slow fashion truly be circular without incorporating recycling? Durability, repair, second-hand, reuse, collection and recycling: every solution has a role to play in transforming the textile industry. Discover why polyamide recycling is essential for recovering complex textiles that can no longer be reused, and how REC is helping give a new life to materials from end-of-life garments.
February 17, 2025 /

Pre-consumer Textile Waste and Dormant Stock: How Can these ones Be Recovered?

Can textile offcuts and dormant stock become new industrial resources? Production offcuts, leftover rolls, manufacturing defects and surplus stock: these pre-consumer textile waste streams containing polyamide represent a complementary source of material to end-of-life textiles. Discover how REC is working to structure their collection, characterisation and recovery in order to secure the feedstock needed for industrial polyamide recycling.
December 7, 2024 / ,

REC and Provence TLC: A Partnership to Collect and Recycle Textiles Containing Polyamide

Polyamide recycling starts with the collection and sorting of used textiles. Together with Provence TLC, REC began its initial research by focusing on tights, socks and hosiery containing a high proportion of nylon. Discover how waste-stream characterisation and the sorting of complex textiles are helping to build an industrial polyamide recycling value chain.
November 22, 2024 / ,

A look back at Textile 360: an inspiring event at the heart of the textile transition!

Recycling complex textiles requires the entire value chain to work together. At Textile 360, REC met with collectors, sorting centres, industrial companies, brands and innovation stakeholders to discuss the collection, sorting and recovery of used textiles. Discover the challenges and collaborations needed to develop a more circular recycled polyamide value chain.
November 10, 2024 / ,