In this episode of Thread Talks, part of the Circular Soundbites podcast from Reconomy, host Aimee Campanella (Development Director, Textiles EPR) sits down with Ross Barry, co-founder of resale platform Reskinned and Managing Director of LMB Textiles.
Ross shares LMB's story, from his grandfather's post-war move into the London rag trade through decades of UK textile recycling and export, to today's resale and take-back markets. The conversation covers LMB's workwear repair programme with the UK prison service, the textile repair skills gap, and a recent collaboration with Passenger turning old coats into patchwork blankets.
They also dig into Reskinned's brand take-back model, a recent eBay Live event with Marks & Spencer, plans to launch in Europe, and why building customer trust through visible repairs, resale and genuine take-back guarantees is becoming a real competitive advantage for fashion brands.
The episode closes on the recycling side: the shrinking UK shoddy mill industry, the rise of textile-to-textile chemical recycling, and why aggregating volume and collaborating across the industry, rather than competing, is essential to scaling circularity in fashion.
**Topics covered:** textile reuse and resale, workwear repair, brand take-back schemes, EPR and legislation, chemical recycling, and the future of circular fashion.
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