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Recycling
Why textile recycling is harder than plastic — and the breakthroughs coming next.
1
Mechanical vs Chemical
Two ways to recycle clothes, and why one shortens fibres while the other dissolves them.
11 min
2
Sorting Problems
Why most clothes you donate end up in landfill anyway — and what's being done.
10 min
3
Fibre Shortening
Each recycle round makes the fibre weaker. The science of why recycled cotton is usually 20% recycled, not 100%.
9 min
4
Design a Recycling System
Pick a city, design its textile recycling pipeline — collection, sorting, processing, output.
16 min