Soiled. Torn. Mixed-blend. Headed for landfill or the incinerator. The textiles every other recycler rejects are exactly what our chemo-mechanical reactor was built for. Extracted at 120°C. Compounded into yarn. Made by formalised waste-workers earning 2-3x with ESOPs and dignity.
Cleaner streams. Pre-consumer factory cuttings. That is what the industry calls textile recycling today. The actual waste, the part that fills landfills and incinerators, gets ignored because it is too hard to process. We built our patented tech for that.
Mixed, blended, soiled, torn. Stitched in layers, with metal zips, elastics and labels stuck inside. Headed straight for landfill or the burner. This is the worst of textile pollution, and it is exactly the feedstock our process was designed for.
The competing approaches use organic solvents, high pressure, or pyrolysis at 500°C-plus. Ours runs at the temperature of a kitchen kettle, in water, at atmospheric pressure. Patent-pending purification step pulls TPA cleaner than virgin without recrystallisation.
Roughly 60% of the input becomes polyester yarn. The remaining 40% becomes construction-grade tiles and decking. Nothing goes to landfill on our side. Everything that comes in leaves as a finished material.
Purified terephthalic acid extracted from the textile waste, repolymerised into virgin-like polyester yarn. Yarn-grade IV on the first attempt. Dope-dyed confirmed.
Non-polyester residual fibres compounded into rigid, weather-resistant construction composites. Flame-retardant, antimicrobial, water-resistant.
Independent lab-tested. Below-detection 4-CBA, the critical impurity that virgin PTA carries at 25-36 ppm. Yarn-grade IV on the first polymerisation attempt. Numbers that match or beat virgin chemistry.
| Metric | Virgin PTA (petrochemical) |
VerdiPTA (Without®) |
|---|---|---|
| Purity | 99.5 - 99.9% | 99.6% |
| 4-CBA (critical impurity) | 25 - 36 ppm | Below detection limit |
| p-Toluic acid | 100 - 170 ppm | 40 ppm |
| Polymerised rPET IV | 0.661 dl/g | 0.654 dl/g |
| Metric | ASTM D7976 (yarn-grade spec) |
VerdiPTA (Without®) |
|---|---|---|
| 4-CBA (max allowed) | Max 25 ppm | Below detection limit |
| rPET IV (yarn-grade) | 0.640 ± 0.01 | 0.654 dl/g |
| Polymerisation attempts to spec | Multiple iterations typical | First attempt |
| Denier match (vs virgin 248D) | Target ±5D | 246D |
Other emerging textile recyclers need cleaner inputs, organic solvents, or high-pressure equipment. Ours was designed from day one to handle the worst of the worst, at safer conditions, integrated end-to-end with an ethical workforce.
Virgin polyester is soulless by design - cracker output stripped of any history. Most "recycled" polyester is anonymous flake from anonymous waste, pretending to be virtuous. Ours is different. Every batch carries provenance, people, proof, and story.
Yarn manufacturer, fashion brand, sustainability lead, or just curious about where your worst textile waste could end up? Our textile pilot is live and we're scaling. Let us reimagine textile, together.
