European Textile EPR: What Do the New Rules Change for Textile Recycling ?

What will the new European textile EPR change for recycling? European legislation strengthens Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and is expected to help finance the collection, sorting, reuse and recycling of textiles. But beyond the regulatory framework, the entire value chain needs to become more structured in order to improve the recovery of complex textiles. Discover what these new rules could mean for polyamide recycling and the industrialisation of new textile circularity solutions.

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Startups and the Ecological Transition of Fashion: What Role Does Industrial Innovation Play?

What role can startups play in the ecological transition of the fashion industry? Faced with challenges related to resources, waste and textile end-of-life, Deeptech startups are developing new solutions to overcome technological barriers. From recycling complex textiles to producing recycled materials, discover how industrial innovation can help transform the textile industry and why scaling up is essential to creating real impact.

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Women in Industry and Tech: Why Diversity Drives Innovation

What role do women play in industry, technology and Deeptech? Faced with the challenges of reindustrialization and the ecological transition, companies need diverse scientific, technical, industrial and managerial skills. A look back at REC’s participation in Lady’J Tech and at the role diversity plays in developing new technologies, particularly in industrial recycling and the circular economy.

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Circular Fashion: Why Collaboration Between Brands, Companies and Recyclers Is Essential

What if one meeting could change the course of a project? In 2022, Ecollant, which became REC, won the European Circular Fashion Trophies, a distinction that above all helped create decisive meetings and collaborations. From collecting end-of-life textiles to exchanges with brands and fashion industry stakeholders, discover how an event can help an innovation grow and lay the foundations for a more circular textile industry.

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Global Industrie 2025: Reindustrialization, the Circular Economy and Industrial Scale-Up

How can French industry accelerate its transition towards a more circular and sovereign model? After four days at Global Industrie 2025, Ecollant, now REC, looks back at the major challenges transforming industry: reindustrialization, decarbonization, industrial sovereignty, innovation and the circular economy. Discover why polyamide recycling is at the heart of these transformations and how REC is preparing to scale up its technology for industrial deployment.

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Textile recycling: from complex waste to Ecollant’s innovation laboratory

How can a textile recycling technology move from the laboratory to industry? In 2025, Ecollant welcomed the teams from Dynamo Production and France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to AuxR_Lab for filming dedicated to the future of textiles and new recycling solutions. It was an opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes look at the R&D, experimentation and scale-up of a technology dedicated to recycling polyamide from complex textiles, now being developed and industrialised by REC.

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Our Best Wishes for 2025: A Decisive Year for the Industrialisation of Polyamide Recycling

2025 was a decisive year in preparing for the industrialisation of polyamide recycling. After several years of research and development, Ecollant, which became REC in 2026, reached a new milestone with the scale-up of its technology for recycling polyamide from complex textiles. Discover the key developments, technological challenges and collaborations that shaped this pivotal year, ahead of REC’s industrial site becoming established in Joigny.

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Planned Obsolescence in Textiles: What Are the Challenges for Recycling ?

What is planned obsolescence in textiles, and what impact does it have on recycling? Not all garments are necessarily designed to become unusable quickly, but their lifespan depends on many factors: quality, fashion trends, care, repairability and material composition. Discover the challenges surrounding garment lifespan, the end-of-life of complex textiles, and the solutions developed by REC to recycle the polyamide and nylon contained in certain textiles.

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REC (formerly Ecollant) Wins the 2024 WeImpact Competition – Decarbonisation Challenge

A victory recognising innovation in support of decarbonisation. In 2024, Ecollant, now REC, won the We Impact – Decarbonisation Challenge for its project to recycle nylon and polyamide from complex textiles. Discover the story behind this recognition and how recycling existing materials can help reduce reliance on virgin resources and accelerate circularity in the textile industry.

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