Researcher Diana Reyes Forsberg together with Nadine Hollinger, Jenny Bengtsson, Tahani Kaldeus, The Loop Factory has published an article showing that the potential of using discarded viscose textiles to produce high quality viscose fibers is limited by the low molecular weight of the cellulose and its further reduction in the recycling process.
The article presents a simple method of reprocessing discarded viscose textiles to produce high quality recycled viscose fibers. The study shows that discarded viscose fibers have the potential to be part of a circular textile value chain.