At this year’s Future Fabrics Expo, RE&UP brought together stakeholders from across the value chain for a private breakfast session titled: “Yesterday’s garments, today’s raw materials what’s holding us back?”
Moderated by RE&UP’s Senior PR & Marketing Manager Keith O’Brien, the panel featured Nienke Steen (Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute) and Priyanka Khanna (Fashion for Good), who shared expert insights into the systemic and technical challenges preventing textile-to-textile recycling from scaling – and what’s being done to solve them.
With over 50 guests in attendance and active participation from the audience, the discussion offered a rare cross-sector exchange between innovators, brands, retailers, and press exploring key topics such as:
• Barriers to infrastructure and investment
• The role of certification and standardization
• Collaboration models that are pushing progress
The event reflected RE&UP’s ongoing commitment to building open dialogue around circularity and accelerating the solutions needed to turn ambition into implementation.
“Yesterday’s garments are already today’s raw materials. There are still challenges, but we’re operating at scale and with the right partners, we’ll continue to do better said REBUP’s General Manager Andreas Domer.
