How Lycra is expanding its eco horizons

In the latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, host Philip Berman speaks with the Lycra Company’s sustainability director, Jean Hegedus, about how its eponymous stretch fibre can play a part in textile circularity.

Known for being hard to extract when separating blended textile waste, Jean Hegedus provides an insight into how elastane fibre could still play an important part in circular textile supply chains, if the economics stack up.

She also adds to the debate of whether PET bottles should be leveraged amidst the textile industry’s push for circularity, or whether textile-to-textile recycling is a more suitable alternative.