Facing the Fact: Waste in the Fashion Industry
It is nearly impossible to imagine living in aworld without clothing. Every year, around100 billion pieces of garment are newly
produced. While an enormous amount of
non-renewable resources are extracted toproduce these clothes year after year, only
few of them get recycled into new clothing.
The vast majority of old garments are sent
to landfill or incinerated, and its negativeenvironmental impacts are increasingly
becoming a serious concern. Isn't there
anything we can do about it? – Our project
started out from this simple question.

R E N U ™ Project
RENU™ Project is an initiative that addresses the issuesof excessive waste in clothing and textile industry andprovides various solutions to realize a future fashion
system and a circular economy with measures such as
recycling old garment and textile from the value chain.
Through this challenge, we transform and redesign a newsustainable value chain to close the loop in clothing andapparel in order to protect the future of our planet. The
true value of RENU™ Project is supported by the people –the mills, brands, and consumers – actively participatingin this project.

CIRCULARECONOMYThe Three Scopes of R E N U™ Project

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Consumersfor
1 thefor2 thefor3 theThe solution to reduce thenegative environmental impacts
must be as sustainable aspossible while it is also required
not to compromise in theperformance of the productitself. RENU™ is for the mills whocare about quality as much as
they do about the planet’ senvironment.

In the era of rapidly growing
fast fashion, new social issues
by clothes being massively
underutilized are becoming
more serious and critical.
RENU™ is an initiative wherebrands and retailers canparticipate from the view of
CSR and ESG in the risingattention from stakeholders
and investors.

News and articles related to theenvironmental issues arecapturing consumers’ attention
more than ever leading them totake actions to make impact insolving these problems. Choosing
brands and products that supportand use RENU™ can be an active
step towards realizing thecontribution.

Circular Economy by RENU™
The unique technology which RENU™ applies enables recycling old garment and textile into
newly born recycled polyester and polyester material while the conventional recycling approach
can only use selected pet bottle wastes to be put into its recycling process. The
depolymerization and refining processes of RENU™ are the keys to produce brand-new
polyester material with properties compatible to virgin products.
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What Makes R EN U ™ Unique
Realize ‘Textile to Textile’ with R E N U™ .
RENU realizes a circular economy in fashion by utilizing textile and clothing that used to bethrown away. This leads to less non-renewable resources put into the supply chain. At one ofthe partner factories of RENU™ Project located in China, they are replacing yearly 30
thousand metric tons of non-renewable resources by using collected old fabrics and garments.
Participating in RENU™ Project will mean supporting this ‘Textile to Textile’ system thatprovides a solution to the social and environmental issues in a global scale.

Color RE NU ™ with your color.
While polyester’ s dye-ability and colorful brightness has enlarged the possibility and diversity
in textile product design, it becomes a challenge to completely remove those colors from thefiber and material when it comes to recycling them. RENU™ applies a unique technology in its
recycling process that allows the recycled polyester to have a dye-ability compatible withvirgin polyester. It could be dyed to the required colors without constraints such as the color
difference from batch to batch which most of the recycled polyester products in the market
currently are facing.

Differentiate your products with R E N U™ .
Fine counts, high-tenacity, unique cross-sections, unique brightness – these are commonly
recognized and applied in today’ s textile products made with virgin fiber, however, we cannot
take it as granted in recycled polyester. Typically for conventional recycled polyester, thequality and performance of the recycled polyester is highly related to the quality of the petbottle wastes it uses and even with a high level of proper segregation and processing, it isnearly impossible to produce products compatible with virgin polyester. RENU™ can utilize
nearly any type of pre-consumer and post-consumer wastes no matter where it comes fromas far as it contains polyester.

How RENU ™ Contributes to Environmental ConcernsCompared with the conventional polyester production with non-renewable recourses, RENU™ canreduce the negative impact on environment in a massive scale. Here an example of how one of themajor partner factories of RENU™ contributes each year to the environmental concerns by producing
RENU™ material instead of conventional polyester.

Recycled Waste Material

Reduced CO2

equivalent to a car running

equivalent to150

1,670

million piecesof T-shirts

Reduced Water
equivalent to65

million bottlesof water (500ml)

times around the globe

RENU™ Global Strategy
With our global network coveringeach region, we are committed todeliver RENU™’ s value worldwide.
We collaborate with partners
around the world, and byproviding solutions, together westrive to address the issues oftoday’s fashion industry.

RENU ™ Item Category
Products of RENU™are available in various shapes and covers a wide range of the value chain
providing diverse opportunities to participate in RENU™ Project. We believe that making small steps
forward in each stage of the supply chain can transform the new textile value chain.
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