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Read the full articleZERO-WASTE LUXURY WOOL MADE FROM RECYCLED GARMENTS [...] Thousands of litres of water are used in the production of a single t-shirt, making textile recycling a highly effective method of reducing water pollution, landfill, and greenhouse gas emissions. Now, an Italian luxury fabric company has mastered the art of wool recycling to create a fully circular, high-end fabric that is completely traceable. Using mechanical recycling, Manteco transforms pre-consumer scraps and leftovers, post-consumer garments and, industrial waste into a soft, durable and sustainably coloured yarns and fabrics. [...]
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Read the full article[...] Some of the campaign's highlights such as the checkered men's over shirt or the oversized vest are made of innovative MWool recycled wool. These fabrics were developed by the traditional Italian fabric manufacturer Manteco. The company pioneered the measurement of resource savings in the first life-cycle analysis for recycled wool, and has developed an innovative process to produce wool dyes without a dyeing process through a complex sorting and blending system of the raw material. This manual process, which finds the right formulation for each color, is called Recype.
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