Let’s say you’re a laundry operator with a large uniform account. Suddenly, your client decides to change his workwear color or style. This leaves you with several thousand sets of disused garments. Such a quantity may be more than you can practically store or shift to other clients. What do you do? In most cases today it’s landfilling. But technology is advancing to give laundries more “circular” options aimed at remaking disused textiles into new products.

Innovative Recycling

Consider, for example, James “Bud” Honshell, a TRSA member and president of Hybridworks Textile, Xenia, OH. Located roughly 16 miles ...