Our Partners

BlockTexx is a clean technology company driven to help companies divert unwanted clothing away from landfill.

Based in Logan, Queensland, BlockTexx's world-first SOFT (separation of fibre technology) process takes cotton and polyester waste and turns it into high-grade cellulose powder and rPET pellets that can be used for a range of industrial and manufacturing applications delivering full circularity for garment waste.

Typical garment trims such as elastic, zips, metal buttons, reflective tape and pressed studs need to be removed from garments before processing. This decommissioning process can be time-consuming and a cost deterrent. Deane's product development team is working closely with BlockTexx to design garments and trims, bypassing the decommissioning process and going straight into processing, meaning the garment is 100% recyclable.

Upparel is on a mission to address textile waste with facilities in Australia and New Zealand. It commits to reusing or repurposing 100% of the textiles it receives.

Upparel will accept all fibres and, after sorting either:

• Reuse by sending garments that are still wearable to charities, social enterprises and not-for-profits
• Repurpose. This can take different forms, but the most common is to turn textiles into a cushion-like fibre used as filling furniture and insulation. Upparel also continues to research and develop commercial-scale applications for this recycled material.

Deane now partners with Upparel to process all our obsolete stock which is unable be reused by our not-for-profit partners. This means we're diverting approximately 500kg's of old garments from landfill every year.

Deane is a founding member of Usedfully, a New Zealand-based organisation on a mission to transition industry to a low carbon, circular economy by implementing new technologies and business models at scale.

Usedfully exists to ensure the total value of textile resources is maximised, to minimise the impacts of the textile industry.

Some of its key initiatives are:

• Documenting the landscape of New Zealand textile waste, including the scale of waste and current recycling channels available
• Development of a software platform to track material flows and measure the environmental impact from the garment sale through to the end of garment use
• Research and assessment of global initiatives in the textile reuse space
• Lobbying the government for an industry-government partnership to implement garment end-of-life solutions at scale
• Implementing textile reuse projects such as the fibre-to-roading trial to test the commercial viability of reuse initiatives