Seattle-based company Evrnu® is a textile innovations company creating a circular ecosystem through their fibre technology that transforms old clothing into new, high-quality raw materials, offering a solution to the escalating problem of blended textile fibres which cannot be widely recycled, and are incinerated or landfilled leading to a loss of valuable resources while causing significant environmental damage.

The fast-paced fashion supply chain produces over 92 million tons of waste each year and consumes 79 trillion liters of water. Cheap synthetic fibers that make lightweight and durable fabrics fuel this industry, but the environmental cost is high and long-lasting. In 2015, the annual greenhouse gas emission from polyester production for textiles reached the equivalent impact of 185 coal-fired power plants. Of the current textile recyclers in operation today, most can only recover and recycle one material. However much of the clothing created today is compiled from blended fibre, with the polyester-cotton the most commonly produced by the fashion industry. Until recently, any recycling process that preserved the polyester polymers would degrade the cotton fibers, and vice versa. The inability of textile recyclers to salvage both types of fibre is a barrier to circularity for the textile industry, leading to a loss of valuable material resources and increasing volumes of textile waste.

Evrnu is the inventor and intellectual property owner of a wide range of regenerative fibre technologies, which enable entirely new products to be made from discarded clothing, not just once but multiple times. 

Evrnu’s innovative NuCycl technology strips old garments down to their component fibre to produce a stronger end material capable of reuse. 

Products made with NuCycl by Evrnu can be disassembled to the molecular level and regenerated multiple times into new clothing, home and industrial textiles with extraordinary performance and environmental advantages. The technology uses repolymerization to convert the original fibre molecules into new high performing renewable fibre. Even the toughest type of textile waste – 100% post-consumer – can be turned into new materials with NuCycl.

NuCycl Technologies by Evrnu include:

- Regenerative Cellulosics

- Next generation regenerative Cellulosic solvent systems

- Regenerative Polyester

- Recoverable Stretch

- Bio Engineered Fibers

Evernu technologies provide end of life solutions for textile waste that are benign to the environment. This technology will reduce the amount of textiles going to landfill as much as possible by mining or disassembling those polymers and re-polymerizing them back into new materials for a high-value new product

Evrnu uses 98 percent less water than what is required for virgin cotton production, eliminates 80 percent of typical pollutant emissions, and can be regenerated multiple times. Evrnu offers an environment-sparing alternative for the world's highest demand fibers -- cotton, polyester, and rayon.

Evernu is an innovation partner of Fashion for Good initiated “Full Circle Textiles Project: Scaling Innovations in Cellulosic Recycling”. Focusing on cellulosic fibres, this Project aims to validate and eventually scale promising technologies in chemical recycling from a select group of innovators to tackle these issues.