July 20, 2021
CAMPBELL HALL, N.Y. July 20, 2021 Accelerating Circularity Inc. today released plans for U.S. trials of commercial scale textile-to-textile systems in its latest report, “Putting Textiles to Good Use.”
The report concisely presents the rationale and goals for the trials, including ambitious content minimums of 40-percent recycled blends and 20-percent post-consumer inputs for all trials. In response to stakeholder demand, the report also lays out the role, benefits, and responsibilities of each prospective participant.
The group proposes specific trials targeting post-industrial and post-consumer feedstocks, mechanical and chemical recycling technologies, recycled cotton, polyester, and man-made cellulosic fibers, and several finished product categories. These serve as a starting point for Trial Partner collaboration within the project that will generate multiple circular textile products at mass retail scale. Brand and retail partners have the option to buy-
abare was getting updates on mark. i don t know how many minutes passed by when another prosecutor came in the courtroom saying how bad it was. reporter: about an hour earlier, shannon had walked from the parking lot to the courthouse. that s the same root her friend and colleague mark cassie was walking when he was shot. now, too afraid to go anywhere, she stayed inside, praying for him. we are now just waiting to hear if he is going to live. reporter: but bad news traveled fast. it did not take long for his trial partner to walk in to the courtroom shaking her head and crying. and i think at that point we knew he was gone. reporter: i can only imagine how horrible a moment like that is. it s horrible. it will be in my brain forever. like i will never, ever forget that. there s not a day that goes by that i do not go by her and think back to that day and exactly what happened and exactly what i saw. reporter: mark cassie was dead at 57. gunned down on his way to work
and yet it is the wrong thing to do where it s interfering with an investigation. you said earlier lawrence, that sometimes the simplest explanation is correct. during watergate my trial partner would always say if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck sometimes it is a duck. ask i think we have to look at it that way, that the simplest explanation may be that something wuss going on between the president and russia that he can tolerate. or it s just his personality, that he s so paranoid he can t stand to admit possibly there was some help from the russians in being elected. well, it s not paranoia anymore because people are really coming for him. anyway, thank you jil wine banks. up next roy moore refuses to concede saying the battle wages on in alabama. we re going to talk about tuesday s big win with a rising star in politics. birmingham s young mayor randall