Fabric technology offers advantages to the military, first responders, and athletes, though new performance-specific fibres remain rare. While sustainable R&D focuses on replacing oil-based materials and recycling waste, high-performance synthetics like Kevlar and Nomex continue to be vital for extreme protection and top-tier performance enhancement.
Driven by legislation, especially in the EU, the need to establish viable recycling supply chains for all textiles will become increasingly important in the next few years. However, despite some very well established and streamlined supply chains, the recovery and recycling of technical textiles will not simply be reliant on general consumer compliance.
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