Walmart funding boosts US recycling initiative

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NEW YORK – An initiative between US-based non-profit organisation Goodwill Industries International and Accelerating Circularity has received US$1.2 million from the Walmart Foundation to develop skills, systems and infrastructure to transform unsellable textile donations into recycling feedstock.

Accelerating Circularity works with a number of brands, retailers, recycling innovators and non-profits on textile recycling trials in both North America and Europe as part of its mission to turn spent textiles into mainstream raw materials.

Piles of textiles packaged up in bales waiting to be recycled.

NEW YORK – An initiative between US-based non-profit organisation Goodwill Industries International and Accelerating Circularity has received US$1.2 million from the Walmart Foundation to develop skills, systems and infrastructure to transform unsellable textile donations into recycling feedstock.

Accelerating Circularity works with a number of brands, retailers, recycling innovators and non-profits on textile recycling trials in both North America and Europe as part of its mission to turn spent textiles into mainstream raw materials.

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