Another world first for OnceMore®: Recycling coloured textiles
OnceMore® by Södra is delighted to be working with ICA, the leading Swedish grocery retailer, to save 56,000 used items of coloured workwear from incineration and turn them instead into new textile fibres.The ground-breaking cooperation will begin with workwear from 88 of ICA’s Maxi stores being sent to the OnceMore® production line at Södra’s Mörrum pulp mill in southern Sweden. Instead of being incinerated these garments will be the raw material for as many as 28,000 new garments. This is the first time that coloured workwear from blended materials will be recycled and used for new