How Waste PET Fabrics Are Recycled into High-Value Fibers and Pellets 2026-05-22
Recycling PET bottles is already a mature industry. Recycling PET fabrics, however, is an entirely different engineering challenge.Garment factory offcuts, used polyester clothing, home textile waste, and industrial fiber scraps do not behave like rigid plastics. They are soft, entangled, dyed, blended with other fibers, and often contaminated with oils, labels, metals, and finishing chemicals. If the same recycling logic used for bottles is applied to fabrics, the line will quickly clog, the washing will be ineffective, and the final IV of PET will collapse during melting.