Issue three of Sportstextiles is available now. Recycling features prominently in our lead articles. We offer insight into progress in recovering elastane fibres from clothing for reuse. Among the benefits of this will be a boost to recyclers’ income streams. Separately, we look at the incentives recyclers can offer to encourage brands and manufacturers to use their services. If regulatory changes represent the ‘stick’, recycling programmes want to offer ‘carrots’ too. Newcomers looks at biotech protein fibres that are in the works at Tandem Repeat, while Rise To The Challenge celebrates the long partnership between fabric manufacturer Chargeurs PCC and textile machinery developer Karl Mayer. Footwear technology’s focus is on a boot that boosts warmup and recovery, and Sustainability takes a critical look at the environmental demands that Europe is imposing on manufacturing partners in Asia. This has left one leading industry figure, Justin Huang of the Taiwan Textile Federation, wondering who will produce g
