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Harvest Nano is leading the charge in textile circularity by transforming post-consumer textile waste into sustainable, high-value products.
Harvest Nano is leading the charge in textile circularity by transforming post-consumer cotton and synthetic fabrics into sustainable cellulose and nanocellulose.
In partnership with Goodwill Industries of West Michigan, we’ve launched Michigan’s first textile-to-nanocellulose recycling facility — converting non-saleable garments into eco-friendly materials for packaging, automotive, construction, and more.
Using patented technology, we extract high-value nanocellulose from textile waste — a material four times stronger than stainless steel, yet lightweight and biodegradable. The process supports landfill diversion, creates jobs, and opens new revenue streams across industries.
This partnership proves that textile waste isn’t the end of the line — it’s the beginning of a more sustainable, circular future.
Harvest Nano works with both post-consumer textile waste (PCTW) and pre-consumer textile waste, including surplus, overstock, unsold, returned, defective, or donated new textile products from manufacturers, brands, and retailers.
Textile waste is complex. Garments and other textile products can contain cotton, polyester, elastane, nylon, blended fibers, dyes, coatings, finishes, buttons, zippers, labels, and other materials or contaminants.
That complexity is why responsible textile recycling begins with identification, sorting, characterization, separation, and appropriate pretreatment before material recovery.
Not every textile should follow the same pathway. Harvest Nano develops Smart Sorting and processing technologies designed to help identify:
What Was on the Fabric Can Follow the Material.
Textiles may contain PFAS, dyes, coatings, flame retardants, water- and stain-resistant finishes, detergents, oils, grease, dirt, cosmetics, and other chemical or environmental residues.
With post-consumer textiles, there is an additional uncertainty: the prior use and handling history is often unknown. You may not know who wore the item, where it was used, what it contacted, how it was washed, or what substances it may have accumulated over time. These residues and finishes can remain relevant through reuse, sorting, shredding, recycling, and material recovery. That is why responsible textile recycling starts with understanding the feedstock—not assuming that used clothing is chemically clean simply because it looks clean. For Harvest Nano, contamination awareness starts at the feedstock stage.
Screen before processing.
Identify potential contamination before material enters the recovery stream.
Segregate rather than dilute.
Flagged material can be separated instead of mixed into the cellulose feedstock.
Document the material.
Testing and screening create records that can support brands, regulators, recyclers, and downstream buyers.
Better input control creates better output.
Textile waste is not only cotton. One Waste Stream. Multiple Valuable Outputs.
Polyester and other synthetic fibers represent a major share of today’s textile stream. Harvest Nano’s approach is therefore designed around the whole waste input, not only the cellulosic fraction. Our systems analyze, identify, separate, clean, and prepare different textile fractions according to what they actually are.
Mixed Textile Waste
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Analyze & Smart Sort
Fiber identification • contamination screening • material routing
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Natural / Cellulosic Fibers
→ Cleaning & preparation
→ Cellulose extraction
→ Microcellulose / nanocellulose
→ High-value material applications
Polyester & Other Fossil-Derived Synthetics
→ Separation from natural fibers
→ Cleaning and contamination control
→ Controlled size reduction and preparation
→ Recovered high value synthetic feedstock
→ Safer, higher-value downstream applicationsPolyester is the world’s dominant textile fiber. When synthetic garments are landfilled, exported, shredded without adequate controls, or otherwise poorly managed, their material value is lostwhile persistent plastic fibers can continue entering the environment.Synthetic textiles can also release microfibers during wear, washing, handling, shredding, and processing. Used textiles may additionally contain dyes, coatings, finishing chemicals, oils, dirt, PFAS-related treatments, and other contaminants accumulated during manufacturing and use.
That means sorting alone is not enough.
Harvest Nano combines material identification with controlled handling, cleaning, contaminationmanagement, and downstream preparation.
Control the Material Before Creating the Next Product
Our philosophy is simple: Identify it. Separate it. Clean it. Control it. Then decide its best next use.
For polyester and other synthetic fractions, Harvest Nano’s custom machinery and process know-how can be configured to:
identify and separate synthetic fibers from cellulosic materials;
reduce uncontrolled dust and microfiber release during processing;
incorporate enclosed handling, filtration, and collection;
monitor relevant contamination, including PFAS where required;
clean and prepare recovered polymer-rich streams;
separate unsuitable contaminants and mixed fractions; and
produce controlled feedstocks for appropriate downstream manufacturing and recovery applications.The objective is not simply to move textile waste somewhere else. It is to understand thematerial and prepare it for a safer, traceable, higher-value second life.
The future of textile recycling is not one process for every fiber. It is intelligent separationfollowed by the right process for each material.
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