The partnership will see Giotex begin to sell recycled cotton blended yarn embedded with the Aware tracer particles this month in a move that means brands and retailers from the US, producing their ...

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The process involves Ferre recycled yarns being embedded with Aware tracer particles and each production batch being tokenised on public blockchain. The Ferre yarns can be scanned and identified ...

Typically, these recycled yarns consist of 70% of fresh cotton and 30% of recycled cotton yarn. Five spinning mills in the state have adopted this practice.

These products are chopped up, then respun into new yarn by a company called Recover. The recycled yarns are combined with brand-new recycled cotton yarns to create the final blanket.

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Natural fibres, such as wool or cotton, can be recycled mechanically. In this process, the fabric is shredded and re-spun into yarn, from which new fabric can be woven or knitted.

Recycled cotton is often mixed with virgin cotton to ensure a better quality yarn. Most fabrics are also dyed with chemicals, which can have implications for recycling.

UPDATE: After we published this story, Evrnu, the fabric manufacturer, revealed to us that jean prototype actually includes some virgin cotton and is not 100% recycled.