Founded in 1993, family-owned American Recycling Technologies collects and recycles unwanted clothing and other textiles through community collection bins across the Northeast. The company diverts more than 90 million pounds of textiles from waste streams each year, while its program has kept over 1.2 billion pounds out of landfills and raised more than $25 million for charities and local public-service organizations.
Martex FiberFounded in 1975 as a textile-waste trading company, Martex Fiber now recycles more than 160 million pounds of textile waste each year into reclaimed fibers and other recycled textile materials. Its 360° process takes textile waste from manufacturing and post-consumer sources through sorting and fiber processing, while its Zero Landfill Pledge guarantees that purchased waste is recycled. Martex Fiber serves textile mills and manufacturers across North and Central America and the Caribbean and is an ISO 9001:2015 company.PHILADELPHIA, PA
WASTEWEARFounded by Uddhav Bagrodia and Vaidehi Bagrodia, WASTEWEAR is an Ahmedabad-based circular textile company built around keeping discarded textiles in use. It helps organizations recover textile waste and develop practical circular pathways for brands, institutions, manufacturers, and reuse partners.
Swavelle GroupFamily-owned Swavelle Group traces its roots to 1966, when Fred Thomases began selling Moire fabrics, and remains a multigenerational textile company under Thomases family leadership. With more than 50 years in the industry, the group designs and manufactures textiles for commercial and residential interiors, including performance fabrics made at its New Jersey mill. Its environmental focus is unusually tangible: Bella Dura uses a fiber that starts as a by-product and ends as a fully recyclable product.New York, NY