Circular Textiles Foundation and Recover™ Unite Industry at Spanish Recycling Facility for Workshop on Recycled Content at Scale

The Circular Textiles Foundation and Recover™ brought together industry stakeholders at Recover’s recycling facility and innovation centre in Banyeres de Mariola, Spain, for a workshop on recycled content at scale. Hosted on-site, the event gathered brands and partners including UKFT, Textile Exchange and Reviste, marking the first milestone in a strengthened partnership focused on turning recycled content intent into action.

On 14 May 2026, the Circular Textiles Foundation (CTF) and Recover™ brought together brands and industry stakeholders at Recover’s recycling facility and innovation centre in Banyeres de Mariola, Spain, for an exclusive invitation-only workshop: ‘From Intent to Impact: Making Recycled Content Work at Scale’.

Unlike a conference panel or theoretical roundtable, the event combined a hands-on tour of Recover’s live recycling operation with a panel discussion, giving participants the opportunity to see first-hand what it truly takes to make recycled content viable at scale in real production environments, before turning to the harder commercial and strategic questions.

The workshop brought together brands, recyclers and value chain partners to share barriers, ask challenging questions and identify practical pathways forward, reflecting the CTF’s and Recover’s shared conviction that meaningful progress requires collaboration grounded in operational reality, not aspiration alone.

A key message to emerge from the day was the importance of starting now and starting somewhere, with brands speaking candidly about the significant learning and time invested to reach their current positions, underscoring that the journey is long and the earlier you begin, the better placed you will be. Recover™ demonstrated that recycled content is available at scale today, not a future aspiration, with brands able to begin reducing impact immediately. Seeing the scale of Recover’s operation first-hand proved particularly powerful, giving brands a clear understanding of what is already possible.

The Panel

The session featured a panel discussion: “Is a Target of 20% Recycled Content Achievable?”, moderated by Lauren Junestrand, Innovation and Sustainability Network Manager at UKFT, with contributions from:

• Maxime Bourland, Strategic Account Manager, Recover™
• Tim Cross, Founder, Circular Textiles Foundation
• Nick Lambert, Head of Circularity and Materials, Primark
• Natalie Cox, Sustainability Manager – Product Sustainability, Primark

The First Milestone in a Strengthened Partnership

The Banyeres workshop marks the first tangible step following the announcement in April 2026 of a deepened collaboration between CTF and Recover™. That partnership was built with a clear ambition: to promote textile-to-textile recycling solutions, support the integration of recycled materials into mainstream supply chains and contribute to measurable reductions in textile waste.

This event builds on the CTF’s ‘Scaling Circularity’ event held in London in June 2025, co-hosted with the University of the Arts London and Kate Goldsworthy at London College of Fashion, at which Recover™ participated as a panel contributor. That gathering brought together textile-to-textile recyclers and leading UK retailers to address how to scale circularity and served as the launch of the joint statement: “Designing for recyclability gives us the feedstock of tomorrow.” It was a conversation that laid the groundwork for this strengthened partnership.

More to Come

The CTF and Recover™ are committed to continuing to build on the momentum of this event, working with partners across the value chain to turn industry intent into measurable action. Further joint initiatives will be announced in the coming months.