Bitten By The Clothing Bug

Never mind biting insects, have you been bitten by the clothing bug?

A new Swedish company has opened who are eating up all our clothes. It’s called Renewcell and it shreds old, pure cotton clothes to a wet pulp, adds a dash of chemical wizardry, then bleach drys it to produce flat sheets of Circulose.

Circulose creates recycled clothing labelled as viscose etc.

I met these trailblazing firms earlier this year in London at a sustainable fabric expo where The Club of Rome did a keynote speech tackling the ever growing global clothing mountain. I was accompanied by a LSBU Business Solutions student who at the time was at Channel in Selfridges.

We both had a lot to learn about how we could do our bit to support a circular system that recycles clothes rather than sending them to landfill.

Mozzie Cozzie links to Renewcell on our website because they are a zero carbon company helping create circular cotton clothing. It’s today’s automated rag and bone man.

Recycled pure cotton is in great demand and will hold it’s value just like our pure TENCEL.

Mozzie Cozzie made our first two prototypes from cottons and looked at recycled cotton too, but it was a touch too expensive and heavy for travelling with, so we found something else.

We use 100% TENCEL trademarked fibres by Lenzing in our fabrics. These fibres come from sustainably managed forests in a forward thinking European factory with a zero carbon footprint.

Just like recycling cotton, using fabric that is 100% pure is far more easily recycleable when it reaches the end of its current life.

The EU has set a directive around expanding textile collection by 2025.  And so fashion circularity will need to do more than just begin…

If you are bitten by the clothing bug - you like what you chose to wear and want to continue to make good choices.

Take a look under the skin at what we are doing at Mozzie Cozzie.

Its actually nothing new. Before we entered the industrial zone most clothing was made from natural materials. Societies most successful groups repurposed their quality material and passed it down to those who were struggling, particularly those who lived in rural areas who would patch them up and eventually turn them over to the cart man who trundled down the track.