ReBlend is a company that develops textiles and textile products from post-consumer textiles that otherwise would end up in incineration.

In collaboration with waste collectors, producers, designers, makers, and visionaries, ReBlend organises a full supply chain to accelerate a new ecosystem for circular textiles, offering services ranging from the development of innovative textiles, circular clothing, and accessories, to cooperation in the co-creation processes and consultancy support in order to accelerate the transition to circular textiles.

ReBlend fabrics, made in partnership with Recover, Raymakers, Enschede Textielstad, and Italdenim.

It is also collaborating with the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the Afrikamuseum in Berg en Dal, and the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden (NL) to produce colourful shawls made of 70% textile waste and 30% recycled PET.

Creating possibilities to keep post-consumer blended cotton waste in the loop and not go to incineration.

In close cooperation with Recover, ReBlend made a yarn containing 70% old unwearable garments that otherwise would have gone to incineration.

This yarn is a combination of the ReBlend focus to create possibilities to keep post-consumer blended cotton waste in the loop and the knowledge & expertise of the Recover upcycled textile system to recycle pre-consumer cutting waste.

Process of making:

-All post-consumer textiles are collected and sorted by rewearables and recyclables, by composition and by color.

-Then the textiles are stripped from non-recyclable pieces such as zippers and buttons. The waste materials from this process are processed according to environmental regulation.

-The cleaned textiles are then cut and pulled into strings of fiber.

-The yarn is spun by the Spanish Firm Recover.

These fibers are mixed in a huge room with recycled PET from bottles and are carded, spun, and twisted into 20/2 Nm yarn for the production of new textiles.

-By mixing the post-consumer textiles sorted by color, 80% of the dyeing process that would be necessary otherwise with virgin raw materials can be avoided.

-Finally, the yarns are transported to weavers and knitters to produce different types of textile products.

A detailed description of the yarn composition:

Anthracite grey: 70% from sorted multi-color garments + 30% black rPET.

Lavender blue: 50% sorted jeans, 20% sorted white garments + 30% colored rPET.

Ivory white: 70% white sorted garment + 10% colorless rPET + 20% colored rPET.

Oro/gold: 40% sorted white garments + 30% yellow/orange cutting waste + 30% colored rPET.

(Coloring of rPET is with a minimal amount of Oeko-tex certified coloring)