By 2030, Lenzing aims to increase the share and types of alternative feedstocks by using recycled textile waste or agricultural waste. 
Lenzing is making efforts to innovate the use of at least 5 alternative feedstocks providers (e.g. from recycled textiles and agricultural waste) until 2030. Results however strongly depend on commitment of value chain partners in sorting waste, stimulating demand for recycled fibres, and a supportive policy environment to create incentives, such as investments to ensure systemic change.

Τarget date: 01/01/2031
Measurable Target: Increasing recycled content in viscose and lyocell fiber types from 20 percent to minimum 30 percent from post-consumer waste on a commercial scale by 2030

Progress reported in July 2026:  Lenzing has continued enhancing chemical recycling technology for cotton-rich textile waste and made progress preparing to process post-consumer household textile waste. A 2025 highlight was the production of a lyocell staple fiber with 30 percent recycled content using feedstock from Circ Inc., which recovers both polyester and cotton fractions from polycotton waste. Lab-scale trials were also conducted on agricultural waste such as hemp, banana fibers and aquatic plants. None of the agricultural-waste innovations (hemp, banana fibers, aquatic plants) reached pilot-plant scale in 2025.