The Road to Zero-Waste Fashion: Is Textile Recycling Enough?

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:27:29 +0000

In recent years, the fashion industry has become a surprising focal point in the sustainability conversation. Fast fashion, coupled with short product lifecycles, has created a mounting waste crisis—one that generates 92 million tons of textile waste every year. Textile recycling has emerged as a solution, but for those of us in the industrial machinery sector, the bigger question remains: is recycling enough to create a truly zero-waste fashion industry?