Introducing
FOUNDING PARTNERS
The organisations helping build circular textile value chains today will be best positioned to influence their development and benefit from them tomorrow.
THE WHO
The people behind Circle–8.
Circle-8 has been co-founded by Cyndi Rhoades and Marc Lopresto, two spritely champions of materials circularity, from the world of textiles chemical recycling.
Cyndi Rhoades
CEO & Co-Founder
Marc Lopresto
COO & Co-Founder
Judith Rosser-Davies
Business Development Director
N.K. Skandamoorthy
(AKA ‘Moorthy’)
Technical Advisor
Paula McIlwraith
Ecosystem Development Manager
THE WHO
Meet the team behind Circle–8
Circle-8 was co-founded by Cyndi Rhoades, Marc Lopresto and Judith Rosser-Davies. The team brings together decades of experience in textile circularity, fibre-to-fibre recycling, supply chain manufacturing, government relations and market development.
Cyndi Rhoades
CEO & Co-Founder
Marc Lopresto
COO & Co-Founder
Judith Rosser-Davies
Managing Director
& Co-Founder
N.K. Skandamoorthy
(AKA ‘Moorthy’)
Technical Advisor
Paula McIlwraith
Textile Ecosystem Development Consultant
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WE ARE CIRCLE–8
Building circular textile value chains
Transforming UK-generated non-reusable textiles into the raw materials of the future
Circle-8's regional vision to solve a global problem.
The UK's future circular material supply already exists.
Retailers sell it. The UK generates it.
The challenge isn't finding it.
It's building the pathways needed to recover, sort and recycle it into the raw materials of the future.
Circle-8 has developed The Circuit to bring together retailers, recovery partners, recyclers, manufacturers and digital innovators to create circular textile value chains.
THE WHAT
Recovering future materials
via retailer engagement, nationwide collection systems and communication campaigns.
Creating circular materials
Regional automated sorting and pre-processing facilities creating feedstock for recyclers from non-reusable textiles.
Returning materials to regional and global textiles manufacturing
Bridging the gap between economically viable circular materials and commercial adoption.