! 🎉 CHARLE - Finalist for the Biopolymer Innovation Award 2025

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Biopolymer Innovations Award

The Biopolymer Innovation Award (Biopolymer Award for short) recognizes pioneering work in the field of bio-based, biodegradable, or recyclable materials. The award honors innovative technological advances, product developments, or applications involving biopolymers. The aim is to reduce the use of fossil raw materials and establish environmentally friendly material solutions. The award also recognizes the market readiness and practical feasibility of the innovations.

Congratulations to the winners.

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24.06.2025

Textile innovation meets design: Lenzing AG and CHARLE Berlin

Sometimes change starts with something as small as an elastic bra strap. Together with Lenzing AG, we are introducing a new generation of plastic-free textile tapes: fully compostable, elastic tapes made from TENCEL™ Lyocell, TENCEL™ LUXE filament yarn and natural rubber. This collaboration takes us to the next level in achieving our goals: the development and production of fully renewable narrow fabrics. Foto: © TencelTM x CHARLE Berlin

20.06.2025

Green Buddy Award 2025

We've done it again – we've won third place in the Green Buddy Awards in the retail category. The Green Buddy Award is a sustainability prize awarded by the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district office in Berlin, together with the economic development agency. It is aimed at companies, project groups, and private individuals who stand out for their particularly ecological ideas, innovative concepts, and sustainable commitment – either in the district itself or throughout Berlin. Photo: © Julia Merkel

16.06.2025

! 🎉 CHARLE - Finalist for the Biopolymer Innovation Award 2025

We are delighted to announce that our elastic bands made from organic and bio-based materials have been named finalists for the Biopolymer Innovation Award. The jury recognized innovative product solutions in the field of sustainable polymers. In addition to our application, we submitted various versions of our plastic-free, elastic narrow textiles—developed for durable and recyclable applications in the textile industry.

25.04.2025

Circularity is not a trend – it is the only future

Every piece of clothing has an end – but what happens after that? Most textiles end up as non-recyclable waste in incinerators or landfills. The reason: mixed materials, plastic, synthetic dyes. With CHARLE, I am pursuing a different path: 100% recyclable elastic bands , free of plastic, made from natural fibres. What we take from the earth should be able to return to it – without leaving any residue. Because recyclability is not a trend. It is the only future for a fashion industry that truly wants to be sustainable. In this article, I show why half-measures are not enough – and what we need to do differently if fashion is to become part of nature.