In our times of increasingly fast-paced fashion, every consumer throws away an average of 10 kg of textiles annually. Used textiles, however, are not waste but valuable resources which can be fed back into the economic cycle by collecting and recycling, just as paper, glass and plastic. A major player in this cycle is EAST-WEST Textilrecycling Kursun GmbH. As one of the top ten textile recycling businesses in Germany, the family enterprise actively contributes to environmental protection by lending used textiles a second life.