Tarkett is a global leader in innovative flooring and sports surface solutions. It operates a take-back Restart® programme to collect flooring, which is then sorted and selected as a source of raw materials for use in its production process.

Fairphone makes modular smartphones, with components designed for longer use first and refurbishment when they finally break down.

Van Hulley is a Dutch SME that upcycles worn-out shirts into boxershorts, employing disadvantaged women as seamstresses every year and training them to join the labour market more permanently.

Infinited Fiber has developed a technology that can turn cotton rich textile waste into new fibres for the textile industry. Not just once, but infinitely. These new Infinna™ textile fibres can be recycled again and again without decreasing the quality of the fibre.

Renewcell's technology dissolves used cotton and other natural fibres into a new, biodegradable raw material: renewcell pulp. It can be turned into textile fibre, be fed into the textile production cycle and meet industry specifications. This is the link that has been missing from the cycle, and will enable the way fashion is produced and consumed to be transformed into a never-ending loop.

Resortecs has come up with two technologies to facilitate textile recycling: a heat-disolvable thread and a disassembly system.