US startup claims new textile recycling process

By Simon Glover
11 March 2025

Seattle-based Ravel says its process can recycle polyester from blended textile waste with no green premium

SEATTLE - US startup Ravel claims to have come up with a new way of recycling textiles which it reckons is cost-effective and can be dropped in to existing supply chains.

Ravel CEO Zahlen Titcomb says his company's textile recycling technology is not chemical recycling - as it is currently understood - and nor is it mechanical or enzyme-based.

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