Posted: February 28, 2025
Pact Group and BlockTexx have joined forces to tackle textile waste in Australia by exploring a garment collection and recycling initiative. Their collaboration aims to develop an end-to-end solution for recycling polyester and cotton-blend clothing into raw materials for new products. By leveraging Pact’s expertise in sustainable retail supply chains and BlockTexx’s innovative textile recycling technology, this initiative could help reduce landfill waste and promote a circular economy in the fashion industry.
In a major step toward a more sustainable fashion industry, Pact Group and BlockTexx are joining forces to explore new ways to recycle clothing waste. Pact, a leader in plastic recycling and packaging, and BlockTexx, an innovative clean-tech company, have signed an agreement to assess the feasibility of a large-scale textile recycling Australia initiative. Their goal is to develop a system that collects, sorts, and processes discarded polyester and cotton-blend garments from fashion brands and retailers, turning them into raw materials for new clothing, plastic packaging, and other sustainable applications.
Pact brings extensive expertise in the fashion supply chain, particularly through its Retail Accessories division, which collects and redistributes plastic garment hangers for reuse instead of landfill disposal. Hangers that can’t be reused are recycled into new ones, keeping them in circulation. Meanwhile, BlockTexx has developed advanced chemical recycling technology that breaks down hard-to-recycle textiles into reusable fibres. Operating from its Loganholme facility in Queensland, BlockTexx enables fibre-to-fibre recycling for new garments, as well as fibre-to-product and fibre-to-agriculture applications, ensuring textiles get a second life.
This feasibility study will examine Australia’s garment collection and recycling infrastructure, assess how well BlockTexx’s technology integrates into the process, and explore how the recycled materials could be used in Pact’s packaging products and beyond. With 200,000 tonnes of clothing ending up in Australian landfills every year, this partnership could be a game-changer in reducing textile waste and advancing circular economy solutions. Pact CEO Sanjay Dayal sees this as a natural expansion of the company’s sustainable fashion initiatives, while BlockTexx co-founder Adrian Jones believes this project could help the industry make real progress toward cutting CO2 emissions and keeping textiles out of landfills. The study is set to be completed by the end of FY25.
