How Textile Innovator Recover Is Turning Sustainable Fabrics Into a Scalable Reality

The fashion industry’s annual production of an estimated 100 to 150 billion garments has a mounting environmental cost.

Each year, garment production generates 1.2 billion tonnes of CO₂ emissions and releases about 500,000 tonnes of microplastic fibres into the ocean, according to Science Direct. An estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste is generated globally per annum, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, with most of it incinerated or ending up in landfills.