12/12/2025
Big textile circular milestone alert 🌏♻️
UsedFULLY® now offers commercial processing of unwanted textiles and clothing — right here in Aotearoa. Our new Auckland facility is up and running with an initial capacity of up to 3 tonnes per week, with more capacity to come as demand grows. This is a world-first, solvent-free process that transforms unwanted textiles into high-performance products, replacing carbon-intensive virgin materials and unlocking new value from used fibres.
Our recycled textile products are already supporting:
Construction – replacing high-carbon materials with recycled fibre products
Protective coatings – boosting performance while lowering impacts
Roading – innovative asphalt modifiers helping to decarbonise infrastructure
Independent Life Cycle Analysis shows our process generates just 156 kg CO₂e per tonne processed, compared with around 6.4 tonnes CO₂e for typical chemical recycling methods – driving serious emissions reductions across multiple sectors. (Keen to dig into the data? Ask us for the LCA.)
With only two existing used textile processors in Aotearoa (Textile Products and Terra Lana)creating down-cycled products, the market urgently needs new, large-scale pathways for the volume of textile waste being generated. Our science-based approach opens industrial markets for textile waste, scaling up landfill diversion and creating transparent, reliable end-of-use pathways that complement the systems already in place.
Access to these breakthrough circular solutions is available through membership in the Textile Reuse Programme. Membership now includes the processing of textile waste, with capacity to scale as product sales grow. 💚Thank you to all those business who have supported this system change — together we’re building real, measurable change for business, our industry, and Aotearoa.
