Wolkat has created a circular partnership with JBC and Wereld Missiehulp (WMH) to offer full service processing of discarded textiles. Consumers hand in their textile waste at JBC shops where they can also buy products made of recycled textiles. WMH also donates revenue from the second-hand textiles to projects in developing countries. This project is the start of an innovative, circular partnership with many more products to come.

Wolkat optimises the value in every step of the textile recycling supply chain, from re-use as garments to recycled end-products for the fashion, car and home textiles industry. This circular and transparent way of working gives Wolkat control over the full supply chain: collecting, sorting, recycling, spinning and weaving under one roof.

Wolkat processes more than 25 million kg of textiles per year. The only source of CO₂ emissions during the production process is transport to and from Morocco where Wolkat also collects discarded clothing; all other steps are done in-house.

1. Reduce: Wolkat creates new products out of old ones as it works with used clothing and old textiles. At Wolkat's recycling process, only 10 ml of water is used for 1 kg of textile, with pesticides taken out at every step.
2. Reuse: During the second step, one stream is sorted into usable clothing and textiles.
3. Recycle: After all the sorting, one recycles the ‘useless’ textiles.
4. Recreate: After shredding fabrics into new fibers, the new raw materials are revaluated and sent to the spinning mill for old textiles being transformed into new products: yarns, knitted or woven end products and also non-woven fabrics.