New digital care label offers supply chain traceability

The care labels, which will be attached to Ambercycle’s garments, feature a QR code that links to an app offering product details such as how the garment was produced, how it should be looked after and its material composition.

Ambercycle converts end-of-life textile waste into new yarns for apparel brands and manufacturers. Its garments are created from polyester textiles destined for landfill, which instead are broken down to a molecular level, turned into pellets and spun into Cycora yarns which can be processed by garment manufacturers in the same way as virgin yarns.

“A key concern in this process is the upfront identification and sorting the different types of fabrics to inform the best end-of-life solutions,” said Shay Sethi, CEO of Ambercycle. “A digital care label is essential to embracing the broader vision for circularity, as it enables a more streamlined and scalable way for us to regenerate material.”