Adrian Jones is the co-founder of Queensland-based chemical recycling company BlockTexx. Despite being what I think you would still call a start-up, they’ve already proved they can handle 85% of the typical textile fibre types, and are handling about 4000 tonnes of textiles this year.

Millions of old uniforms, medical scrubs and workwear will be diverted from landfill and repurposed into valuable new resources, thanks to a new partnership between BlockTexx and Workwear Group.

Company co-founder Graham Ross said after a search along the eastern seaboard for the right location, Queensland and Logan came out on top due to financial support on offer from both the state and local governments.

A Queensland recycling partnership will see shirts and sheets transformed into shrubs and greenery at major infrastructure projects around Australia. Textile waste start-up BlockTexx has partnered with environmental mitigation company Vital Chemical to use pure cellulose reclaimed from textiles in re-greening projects.

Textile-textile recycling is viewed as the Holy Grail where fashion is concerned. Being able to turn old clothing into new clothing would in theory enable the fashion industry to achieve its circularity objectives and, to a certain extent, continue with business as usual.

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New Zealand’s Deane Apparel is partnering with Australian-based clean technology company Blocktexx, to create clothing that is 100 percent recyclable in Australia.

The company’s three properties in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast will donate old staff uniforms for repurposing into new materials.

A new business in Australia BlockTexx has began construction on what it says will be the world’s first textile recycling factory capable of sorting and recycling cotton and polyester fibre mixes on a large scale.

Australian start-up BlockTexx has begun work on what it claims will the the first textile recycling plant capable of separating and recycling blends of cotton and polyester fibres at scale.

A world-first commercial plant designed to turn fabric into raw materials will also address the vast amounts of fast fashion heading for landfill.

BlockTexx is now underway to build and commission its world-first, commercial-scale, textile resource recovery facility.

Australian fashion technology specialist BlockTexx has been awarded a grant worth more than AU$990,000 (US$766,000) by the country’s government as part of its Accelerating Commercialisation programme.

While it is imperative that the fashion industry increases its funding appetite, the time and opportunity has presented itself for investment to come from outside the fashion industry to realise the attractive returns on offer and deliver measurable impact.

BlockTexx announced as one of 11 startups to join the first Asian cohort of the End Plastic Waste Innovation Platform. The program to identifies the industry’s leading challenges and implement innovative solutions.

Otis Robinson speaks with Graham Ross, co-founder of BlockTexx, a company that aims to recycle textiles via chemical separation while pushing sector-agnostic circularity from its HQ in the global south.

Fashion and textile stakeholders join with industry magazine - Apparel Insider magazine to recognise "50 stars of sustainable textiles."

The magazine recently released a teaser of their upcoming feature piece that includes the BlockTexx founders.

As apparel insider highlighted; "Textile-textile separation via chemical process is, we believe, a potential game-changer in the global textile industry..."

The South Asia Innovation Programme (focused on India and Sri Lanka) brings together global and local apparel brands, manufacturers, investors and innovators, with the aim to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy and to scale the much-needed innovative solutions.

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TEXTILE RECYCLING PIONEERS WEAVE THEIR MAGIC Australian start-up BlockTexx has developed technology to separate and recover polyester and cotton products such as clothes, sheets and towels of any colour and in any condition. The solution yields ‘high-value’ raw materials of PET and cellulose, said to be suitable across all industries.