NEW! Webinar series from Stuff4Life, edition 1 is our Guide to… textiles EPR - 1 April 2025. It’s free to attend; read on for details on how to sign up, discover who’s on the panel and more.

EPR for textiles, the French way: there’s a lot to take from how the French have approached extended producer responsibility for textiles, with modulated (variable) fees and incentives for industry to invest and innovate. Read on to find out more…

EPR for textiles, the French way: there’s a lot to take from how the French have approached extended producer responsibility for textiles, with modulated (variable) fees and incentives for industry to invest and innovate. Read on to find out more…

Our social enterprise Stuff4Life Second Time has supported British Cycling to reduce carbon emissions by rebranding teamwear, keeping it in play for longer. The project will reduce carbon emissions by 1.4 tonnes and create more than £48,000 of social impact value.

Stuff4Life is innovating across the textiles supply chain, responding to and preparing for EPR with its social enterprise, Second Time helping organisations to keep garments in play for longer, saving money, carbon and resources.

Stuff4Life is innovating across the textiles supply chain, responding to and preparing for EPR with its patent pending, proprietary chemical depolymerisation process developed in partnership with Teesside University.

Winner winner chicken dinner TIMES TWO at the Tees Business Awards!

Team Mind BMX racers will be sporting new race jerseys this weekend that are sure to inspire the next generation of BMXers to think about sustainability thanks to Stuff4Life’s ingenuity and DTW’s design team. We are thrilled that our friends

Our mission is simple – to enable a material circular economy; however, delivery is complex and collaboration is key.

The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental award launched by Prince William, celebrates the power of human ingenuity and innovation in tackling climate change. Nominees are selected based on the proven viability of their prototypes, demonstrating signs of success and the potential to make a positive impact on the environment.

Watch this super video made by our friends and partners CPI.

Winner winner chicken dinner at the National Recycling Awards!

Our partner Arco has made a further investment in Stuff4Life and together we have formed a joint-venture company – Stuff4Life Workwear Ltd. This investment has enabled us to progress scale-up activities, the next exciting step on our journey towards true

Stuff4Life + Presca redistributed unwanted BMX race jerseys to inspire the next generation of BMXers at an Access Sport event in Bristol; Stuff4Life will recycle jerseys that couldn’t be reused or repaired.

Stuff4Life has made significant progress with its partners and is now upscaling to commercial level. Such an exciting journey but we’re really only just at the beginning.

As the UK’s leading safety products and services company, Arco has committed seed funding to partner with start-up company Stuff4Life to support the research and development of a closed-loop, circular economy solution for polyester workwear.

CIWM Fellow and Stuff4Life founder, John Twitchen, responds to a recent report which claims recycled content polyester is ‘greenwashing’, in this article for CIWM’s Circular Online.

Stuff4Life is a start-up company focused on delivering customer-based solutions that answer the question “what can I do with workwear and PPE at the end of its life?”

Developing a circular economy and removing plastics from the environment will be the focus of a new partnership between Teesside University and an innovative environmental start-up.

Stuff4Life has partnered with Recoup to help tackle the other plastic challenge – fabrics made from polyester and other polymers.