Recover Joins Forces with T2T Alliance, Partnering with Next-Gen Innovators Syre and Circulose

Recover joins recyclers’ lobby in Europe. The mechanical cotton recycling company based in Alicante, Spain, has joined the recyclers’ alliance founded by some of the big players in new generation materials earlier this year. Named T2T Alliance, in reference to Textille to Textile recycling, the body seeks to become a lobby and advocacy group for textile recycling in Europe.

“Collaboration is essential to unlock relevant textile-to-textile recycling and, by joining forces with other industry leaders through this alliance, we can help shape the policies and standards needed to accelerate circularity along the entire value chain,“ explained Anders Sjöblom, CEO of the group.

The giant, despite having been born as a spinn off of the Spanish company Hilaturas Ferre, has become a global player through plants in Spain, Pakistan, Vietnam, Bangladesh and more recently, El Salvador, so it expects to bring “technical expertise in large-scale fiber recycling”. This incorporation, therefore, will involve both defending the recyclers’ point of view in the European legislative processes, promoting the growth and collaboration of the sector or promoting the implementation of the eco-design law.

Recover increases the representation of mechanical recycling in the alliance

“Recover enters the T2T Alliance at a key moment, when different legislative initiatives are shaping the fashion sector in Europe,“ the group has assessed. The mechanical recycling giant’s decision comes a few months after the creation of the entity itself, which was born at the beginning of March. The founding partners include some of the most relevant players on the textile recycling map, mainly chemicals, such as Circ, Syre, Circulose, formerly Renewcell, and Re&Up.

At the time of its launch, T2T Alliance mentioned as its main priority precisely the greater weight of this link in the fashion value chain in legal and administrative decision-making. “Through this union we want to ensure that the voice of the textile recycling sector is not only heard, but that it actively participates in the creation of policies for the future of the industry,“ explained Andreas Dorner, CEO of Re&Up.

In the same vein, Ana Rodes, director of sustainability at Recover, describes it as essential that European legislators “listen to the voice of recyclers as they shape the laws that will drive circularity and competitiveness” in the new fashion industry. “With our support and contribution to the alliance, we can help ensure that our sector has the visibility it needs among key legislators and lobbyists,“ the director added.