DyeRecycle is shortlisted for the 2026 Manufacturing Futures Innovation Challenge

The London Fashion District’s Innovation Challenge selected participants for their alignment between scientific innovation and commercial application.

Awards


2024

IChemE Global Sustainability Award


H&M Global Change Award

2023


Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship


2023

Mayor of London Sustainability Award

2022


Fashion for Good Global Innovator

2022


In the news.

  • Vogue Italia Patrick McDowell

    Collaboration with Patrick McDowell in Vogue Italia

    DyeRecycle’s collaborated with designer Patrick McDowell was featured in Vogue Italia. The Spring/Summer 2026 collection at London Fashion Week featured a red satin dress dyed using pigment recovered from textile waste.

  • Patrick McDowell x DyeRecycle

    McDowell turned fashion regulation into a show

    Glossy covered DyeRecycle's collaboration with Patrick McDowell at London Fashion Week, highlighting the red satin dress dyed with pigment recovered from textile waste as one of the technically ambitious elements of his Spring/Summer 2026 collection, staged at Battersea Power Station.

  • Vogue Business Fashion Futures

    DyeRecycle Shines At Vogue Business Fashion Futures

    04 December 2024

    We were thrilled to present our cutting-edge innovations at the prestigious Vogue Business Fashion Future event. The showcase provided a platform to demonstrate DyeRecycle's groundbreaking approach to sustainability, drawing interest from industry leaders.

  • IChemE Global Award

    DyeRecycle Wins IChemE Global Award

    28 November 2024

    We are pleased to announce that we have won the Sustainability Award at the IChemE Global Awards 2024. The company was recognized for its pioneering process using ionic liquids to extract and recover textile dyes from waste fabric.

  • DyeRecycle Gives Dyes A Second Chance

    10 May 2024

    DyeRecycle was featured in WWD's Sourcing Journal after raising $1.2M in pre-seed funding. The piece covered the technology's ability to selectively extract dyes from textile waste, producing both clean recyclable fibre and reusable recycled dye.

  • Green Chemistry Gives Dyes A Second Chance

    23 May 2024

    CEO Aida Rafat launches into an exciting explanation of her low-cost, circular model that enables us to reuse dye. The interview is featured in WTIN industry sourcing journal with Abigail Turner.

  • DyeRecycle Samples

    DyeRecycle Closes First Investment Round

    07 May 2024

    We are pleased to announce that we have received $1.2 million in pre-seed funding and $1 million in equity-free match funding from Innovate UK. This investment round includes PDS Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Evenlode Investment and Fashion for Good.

  • Recovered Dye

    Trailblazer 2024 Finalist by GFA & PDS Ventures

    03 May 2024

    We are thrilled to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Trailblazer Programme 2024— an initiative by Global Fashion Agenda and PDS Ventures to identify fashion’s most promising early-stage innovators.

  • Wired Japan Fashion Future

    Fashion Future AH! Feature in Wired Japan

    28 March 2024

    DyeRecycle is featured in WIRED Japan -Vol. 52, 2024, alongside multiple other technologies revolutionizing textiles and materials in the next generation fashion innovation. And don’t forget just a touch of imagination.

  • Undaunted Greenhouse Award

    DyeRecycle Wins Best Pitch at Undaunted Competition

    19 October 2023

    DyeRecycle took second place at Undaunted's Greenhouse Demo Day, held at the Royal Institution. Fifteen climate startups pitched to investors, backed by HSBC UK, the Greater London Authority, and the EU Regional Development Fund.

  • Exploring the Palette of Possibilities at the Future Fabrics Expo 2023

    04 September 2023

    CEO and Founder, Aida Rafat, takes the stage at FFE 2023 to explore the palette of possibilities for dyes. The panel discusses how to turn one of the textile industry’s biggest source of pollution to a frontier of innovation.

  • DyeRecycle honored with H&M Global Change Award

    08 June 2023

    DyeRecycle wins the H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award: Revolutionising Fashion and Redefining its Creation, Perception, and Wearability. The Award supports changemakers with €200,000 grants and a yearlong accelerator programme.

  • Aida Rafat in the lab

    DyeRecycle at Future of Fashion Innovation Showcase

    04 July 2022

    DyeRecycle was exhibited as part of the Future of Fashion Innovation showcase at the Institute of Positive Fashion Forum. The Forum brings together leaders in sustainability, business, and policy focused on driving industry-wide transformation.

  • DyeRecycle color swatches

    Future Fashion Factory Supports DyeRecycle

    02 June 2022

    The Future Fashion Factory (FFF) supports companies advancing textile technologies to address fashion industry's challenges. FFF uses its £5.4 million research and development fund to it's partnerships, including DyeRecycle.

  • Business of Fashion

    Business of Fashion Features DyeRecycle

    07 July 2022

    Business of Fashion features DyeRecycle and other start-ups that aim to detox dyeing. A number of new technologies offer promising solutions for a lower-impact way forward. The article explains the company’s initial innovation and commercial origins.