A LOCAL PROCESS FOR RECYCLING COTTON WASTE
CYCLO® is setting a new standard for recycled fibers. Using their proprietary process, we can keep our cotton waste local and make sure it returns to GMS ready to be reused, without compromising on quality.
The CYCLO® team repurposes cotton scraps from GMS into a brand-new colored yarn. It is made without water, dyes or chemicals, meaning it is much lighter on the earth’s resources than growing and producing new cotton.
The recycled yarn is then brought back ready to be woven into fabric in GMS’ LEED® Platinum Certified facilities, and made into a brand new piece of clothing. Here’s how the magic happens:
• GMS collects any cutting waste that is left over from the production of our cotton jersey styles and manually sorts the scraps by color and quality.
• GMS sends the sorted cotton scraps to CYCLO® where it is sorted after color once again.
• The sorted waste is mechanically recycled, meaning it is shredded into recycled cotton fiber and packaged up into bales.
• The cotton fibers are blended with 45% LENZING™ ECOVERO™ viscose to ensure the final product’s quality level. LENZING™ ECOVERO™ is derived from sustainable wood and pulp from certified and controlled sources with half the emissions and water impact of traditional viscose.
• The fibers are carded (a process that separates out the fibers and removes impurities), spun into yarn and tested for quality.
• The colored yarns are delivered back to GMS.
• GMS knit the yarns into brand new fabrics in-house, before using the fabrics to make our new JACK & JONES styles.