EEDEN

Based in Germany, EEDEN offers a chemical upcycling process that recycles cotton-containing clothing repetitively without any loss of quality. EEDEN’s process extracts biopolymer cellulose (cotton consists of more than 90% cellulose) from old cotton textiles and uses them for the production of fibers such as viscose or lyocell. The company claims that this process uses a significantly low amount of chemicals and reduces by-products such as salt loads in the manufacturing process, thus reducing the ecological footprint.

As of November 2022, the company operated on a laboratory scale in Germany, which offered the company a unique location advantage by having an existing textile collection infrastructure already in place. The company aimed to ensure that the EU market would consist mainly of recycled fibers by 2030.

In November 2022 , EEDEN received funding of an undisclosed amount from Born2Grow to upscale the company’s chemical upcycling process.