Samsara Eco is a chemical recycler capable of recycling PET and PA66 waste streams, with the ability to handle elastane, various types of dyes, and both pre and post-concumer waste. 

Refiberd offers an integrated automated sorting to deal with blended post-consumer textile waste. By utilising a combination of spectroscopy, machine learning and image processing for sorting chemical and mechanical recycling, Refiberd’s technology can reduce material waste to landfill and lower CO2 emissions.

Protein Evolution is a chemical recycler using enzymes for recycling waste, ranging from hard plastics to polyester fibres. Through use of artificial intelligence screening methods and detailed enzyme engineering, Protein Evolution screens and designs enzymes specifically for depolymerising polyester, with polyamide and polyurethane enzymes in development. 

Re:lastane focuses on the separation and recycling of polyester and polyester blended fabrics. They have developed a patent pending “Relastane” polyester recycling system, which realises the separation of polyester fibres from cotton, nylon, spandex and other blended fibres. 

DePoly’s advanced recycling technology converts unsorted, dirty end-of-life plastics and fibres into virgin-grade raw materials. They focus on items that cannot typically be recycled due to complex blends, dyes, contaminants, etc. Their low-energy process uses simple, green chemicals and operates at room temperature, all without the need to pre-wash, pre-sort, or separate out other materials. 

IDELAM’s technology enables delamination of multi-material products or waste, such as jackets and footwear, through processes utilising supercritical CO2. The disassembly of such products allows for more effective recycling and reuse of substrates. 

Epoch Biodesign is an enzymatic recycler based in the UK focused on recycling PA66/elastane blends. They use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to screen enzyme databases against substrates of choice.

Ioncell Oy develops patented Ioncell® technology, which transforms cellulosic bio-materials into new, high-performance textile fibres in a sustainable way. Their technology can improve the quality when textile waste is recycled into new fibres, therefore supporting the inevitable transformation to a circular economy in the clothing and textile industry.