Designing with waste: the creative journey towards circular fashion
As a garment designer with years of experience in the fashion industry, working with recycled fabrics has challenged me on many levels — all of them enriching. Fashion remains a highly competitive sector: unfortunately, sustainability and circularity are still not top priorities for most of the clients, although consumers and regulations are starting to push […]
Case Study —Pedro del Hierro x Coleo
What if your bag used to be someone’s outfit? That’s not a metaphor — it’s textile-to-textile circularity in action. Pedro del Hierro, one of Spain’s leading fashion brands, was looking for a tangible way to express its commitment to sustainability — not just through its collections, but also in its packaging. That meant rethinking […]
The mass balance approach. Rethinking textile recycling
We work to build a network of recycling facilities capable of efficiently and scalably manage the textile waste generated across Europe. To achieve this, we use proprietary technology developed by Wastex (a group company), which allows us to classify materials homogeneously and prepare them for subsequent recycling or valorisation. This model is essential to meet […]
Recycled uniforms from textile waste | Coleo x Solidança
Discover how at Coleo we created recycled uniforms by reusing 2,719 kg of post-consumer garments. A circular workwear successful story. What happens to clothes that can no longer be worn? At Coleo, we believe no fabric should go to waste — especially when it still holds value. That belief drives our mission to turn textile […]
Inside a Waste Management Facility
Many people wonder what happens to textile waste once it enters one of our plants, so we thought it was time to open the doors and share how the process really works. At Coleo, we manage textile waste from two main sources. On one hand, we work with materials from the fashion and industrial sectors […]
Textile Circularity: Closed-loop vs Open-loop
The transition toward a circular economy in the textile sector has brought with it multiple ways of understanding and applying sustainability. One of the most relevant—and often misunderstood—concepts is circularity itself, and alongside it, the distinction between closed-loop and open-loop circularity. Both models have a role to play within the value chain, but the reality is that they do […]
Case Study: Textile Recycling in Action – Coleo x Boboli
How Coleo & Boboli Turned Textile Waste into a Circular Fashion Collection
Understanding Textile Waste: It’s More Than Just Old Clothes
Everyone’s talking about circular fashion — but few are talking about the actual waste. Post-consumer garments, unsold pre-consumer stock, industrial offcuts. The real challenge? Garment-format waste, rising regulation, and the illusion that cutting waste is already solved.
