Harnest, a Bangladesh-based company, has launched the ‘Responsible Trims Collection’, a manufacturing platform designed to help brands adopt recycled, next-generation and biodegradable trims, threads and accessory components within existing supply chains at an industrial scale.
A media statement said that trims account for more than 40 per cent of a garment’s bill of materials and remain one of the least-addressed barriers to textile recycling. Today, fewer than 1 per cent of global textile materials come from recycled fibre.
The collection is built on five partnerships with materials innovators: OceanSafe, Ambercycle, BlockTexx, Indorama Ventures, and Jiaren. Together they span textile-to-textile recycling, advanced polymer regeneration, and biodegradable material innovation, it said.
The first material integrated into the collection is OceanSafe’s naNea, a synthetic material engineered as a direct alternative to conventional polyester. Unlike conventional polyester, naNea’s polymer structure allows it to break down in the environment rather than persist for centuries, the statement said.
Quoting Assef Shaikh, CEO, Harnest, the statement said, “Trims are one of the most overlooked constraints in circular fashion. Brands may focus on the main fabric, but the threads, elastics and labels within a garment also influence whether it can be more effectively recovered, recycled or redesigned for lower-impact outcomes. The Responsible Trims Collection is about making better material choices viable in the real world -- at scale, and with commercial discipline.”
Published on April 23, 2026