AURA
Hospitality Textile Recycling

Every linen has
a life beyond
the guest room.

Aura connects hotels with vetted recyclers — tracking every pound of discarded textile through Cloud Linen Pro's RFID platform so nothing goes to waste.

8,760
lbs recovered — founding donation
$0
cost to hotel partners
100%
RFID-tracked chain of custody
3
enterprise hotel partners active
The Process

Simple for hotels.
Serious about impact.

No extra work for your team. Aura handles collection coordination, recycler matching, and documentation — all tracked through Cloud Linen Pro.

1
🏨
Hotel Donates Linen
When linen reaches end-of-life, your team sets it aside. No sorting required — we accept mixed hospitality textiles.
Zero effort
2
📡
RFID Tracking Begins
Cloud Linen Pro logs every pound donated — creating a verified chain of custody from your property to the recycler.
Powered by Cloud Linen Pro
3
♻️
Vetted Recycler Receives
Aura matches your donation to an approved recycler. Every partner is vetted for environmental compliance and proper methods.
Aura Certified
4
📄
You Receive Documentation
We issue a formal donation acknowledgment with estimated fair market value for your tax filings and ESG reporting.
Tax + ESG ready
8,760+
Pounds
Diverted
100%
Verified
Recyclers
$0
Cost to
Hotel Partners
3
Active Hotel
Partners
Technology Partner

Tracked by Cloud Linen Pro.
Verified by Aura.

🏨 Hotel
Aura
Recycler
RFID tag scanned at hotel — weight logged
Chain of custody recorded in CLP dashboard
Recycler confirmed receipt — loop closed
Donation letter + ESG report auto-generated
📡
Real-Time Tracking
Every pound of donated linen is logged in the Cloud Linen Pro platform — the same system trusted by Hyatt Regency Seattle and InterContinental Taipei.
📋
Automated Documentation
Donation acknowledgments, ESG impact reports, and chain-of-custody records are generated automatically — ready for your tax team and corporate sustainability reports.
Recycler Accountability
Aura's vetted recycler network is monitored through the CLP platform. We confirm proper processing methods — not just pickup.
Vetted Network

Approved recyclers only.

Every recycler in the Aura network is reviewed for environmental compliance, processing methods, and documentation standards before approval.

Aura Certified
Industrial Rag Conversion
End-of-life linen converted into industrial wiping rags for manufacturing and cleaning industries — keeping textiles in productive use longer.
Aura Certified
Fiber Reclamation
Textiles broken down into raw fiber for insulation, padding, and composite materials — diverting from landfill at a materials level.
Aura Certified
Upcycle & Redistribution
Linen in good condition redirected to shelters, community organizations, and upcycle partners — extending useful life before recycling.
Join the Network

Your discarded linen
belongs somewhere better.

Sign up as a partner hotel and receive full ESG documentation, tax acknowledgments, and tracked chain-of-custody reports at no cost.

The Process

How Aura Works

A closed-loop system — from your laundry room to a certified recycler, every step documented and tracked.

1
Hotel Partner

Set aside end-of-life linen

When linen reaches the end of its usable life — typically after 200+ wash cycles — your housekeeping team sets it aside in a designated collection area. No sorting, no special preparation. Aura accepts mixed hospitality textiles including towels, sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths, and uniforms.

2
Cloud Linen Pro

RFID tracking initiated

Cloud Linen Pro's platform logs the donation — recording weight, date, property location, and linen classification. Each transfer creates a verified digital record that forms the basis of your donation acknowledgment and ESG report. This is the same RFID infrastructure already operating at Hyatt Regency Seattle and InterContinental Taipei.

3
Aura Network

Matched to a vetted recycler

Aura coordinates pickup and matches your donation to the most appropriate certified recycler based on textile type, volume, and geography. Every recycler in the Aura network is reviewed for environmental compliance, processing transparency, and proper disposal methods before approval — and monitored on an ongoing basis.

4
Documentation

Full documentation delivered

You receive a formal donation acknowledgment letter with estimated fair market value for tax purposes, a chain-of-custody report, and an ESG impact summary showing pounds diverted, CO₂ equivalent, and recycler certification. Ready for your finance team and corporate sustainability reporting.

$0
Cost to
Partner Hotels
100%
Chain of
Custody Verified
48h
Donation Letter
Turnaround
IRS
Form 8283
Compatible
The Technology Behind Aura

Aura's chain of custody is powered by Cloud Linen Pro.

Cloud Linen Pro is an enterprise RFID linen management platform already operating inside Hyatt Regency Seattle, InterContinental Taipei, and Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman. It tracks every individual linen item — from the moment it enters a property through every wash cycle — using embedded RFID tags and networked readers.

When linen reaches end-of-life, Cloud Linen Pro already knows it. The platform has logged the full lifecycle — wash count, location history, category, and condition. That data doesn't disappear when linen leaves the property. Aura inherits it.

This is what makes Aura's chain-of-custody documentation uniquely credible — the tracking starts long before the linen is ever donated, not at the point of pickup.

Learn more about Cloud Linen Pro
Live Customer Properties
Hyatt Regency Seattle
1,200 rooms · Live
InterContinental Taipei
Taiwan · Live
Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands · Live
90%
reduction in inventory counting time at Hyatt Seattle
200+
wash cycles tracked per linen item before end-of-life
RFID
every item tagged, scanned, and recorded in real time
AI
LinenAI predicts end-of-life before linen fails in service

Ready to close the loop?

Join Aura as a partner hotel and start turning waste into documentation your sustainability team will actually use.

The hospitality industry discards millions of pounds of textile every year. Most of it ends up in landfill.

Aura Textile Foundation exists to change that. We're a nonprofit built at the intersection of hospitality operations and environmental responsibility — connecting hotels with vetted recyclers through technology that makes accountability automatic.

Every pound tracked. Every transfer verified. Every donation documented.

Founded in Denver, Colorado. Powered by Cloud Linen Pro's RFID platform. Committed to the hospitality industry we know from the inside.

Our Mission
"To eliminate hospitality textile waste through technology-verified recycling partnerships — making sustainable disposal as easy as a donation and as accountable as a balance sheet."
Why We Exist

The Problem

A hotel with 500 rooms cycles through tens of thousands of pounds of linen per year. When that linen reaches end-of-life, most properties have no sustainable disposal pathway. It goes in a dumpster.

Hotels want to do better — but without a verified system, there's no accountability and no documentation worth anything to corporate ESG teams or tax advisors.

The Solution

Aura provides the infrastructure hotels are missing — a certified recycler network, RFID-powered tracking through Cloud Linen Pro, and formal documentation that satisfies both tax requirements and ESG reporting standards.

For hotels, it's free. For the environment, it's meaningful. For sustainability teams, it's finally something they can actually report on.

Leadership

Built by someone
who knows linen.

MK
Mark Kobrin
Executive Director, Aura Textile Foundation
Mark is the founder of Cloud Linen Pro, the RFID linen management platform operating at Hyatt Regency Seattle, InterContinental Taipei, and Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman. With a background in hospitality linen services and enterprise software, he built Aura to solve the disposal problem he saw firsthand — hotels with no accountable pathway for end-of-life textiles. Aura uses Cloud Linen Pro's existing infrastructure to make textile recycling trackable, verifiable, and documentable for the first time at scale.

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IMPACT
Why This Matters

Hospitality textiles are a silent waste crisis.

The hotel industry replaces millions of pounds of linen every year. Almost none of it is tracked after it leaves a property. Most of it ends up in landfill. Aura is building the infrastructure to change that.

120M
metric tons of global
textile waste in 2024
BCG / Environment+Energy Leader, 2025
80%
of textile waste goes
to landfill or incineration
BCG Report, August 2025
<1%
of textiles recycled
into new fiber globally
BCG / Ellen MacArthur Foundation
200+
years for synthetic fibers
to decompose in landfill
Business Waste / EPA
The Hotel Problem

Hotels generate over a ton of textile waste per property, per year.

Research from Resuinsa found that a 300-room hotel generates an average of over one metric ton of textile waste annually — approximately 0.3 kg per room per month. Across the roughly 700,000 hotels operating globally, that represents a staggering volume of discarded sheets, towels, tablecloths, and uniforms.

The hospitality industry as a whole produces an estimated 289,700 tonnes of total waste annually. Textiles represent one of the most overlooked streams — with no standardized disposal pathway, most end-of-life linen is simply landfilled.

The industry is facing increasing regulatory pressure: the EU's Waste Framework Directive now requires member states to implement selective textile collection and recycling targets. California has already passed Extended Producer Responsibility legislation for textiles. This wave is coming to all markets.

Source
Resuinsa (2024); Business Waste Hotel Waste Statistics (2026); EU Waste Framework Directive 2018/851; California EPR Textile Law (2025)
6,000+
tons of textiles discarded by hospitality annually
Sheets, towels, tablecloths, uniforms — end-of-life linen with no standardized recycling pathway.
Clean the World / Hotel Environmental Impact Guide, 2025
1 ton+
textile waste per 300-room hotel, per year
~0.3 kg per room per month. At scale across a hotel portfolio, this is a measurable and manageable waste stream.
Resuinsa Industry Research, 2024
289,700
tonnes of total hotel waste generated globally each year
Textiles are among the least-tracked and least-recycled streams within this figure.
UNEP / Business Waste, 2026
The Gap

Why hospitality textiles don't get recycled — even when hotels want them to.

🔗
No verified recycler network
Hotels have no standardized way to identify, vet, or access legitimate textile recyclers. Without confidence in the destination, most simply default to general waste.
📋
No documentation
Even when hotels do donate linen, they rarely receive formal documentation. ESG reports need verified data — pounds, destination, method. Without that, the action is invisible to corporate sustainability teams.
📡
No chain of custody
Even when a recycler picks up linen, there's no system confirming proper processing. Greenwashing risk is real — claims of recycling that end in overseas landfill are well documented.
"Only 20% of textiles thrown away are collected for recycling globally — and of those, only a fraction are verified as properly processed."
Business Waste Textile Facts, 2025
EPA Textile Material Data
BCG Circular Economy Report, 2025
Environmental Consequences

What happens when textiles go to landfill.

🌡️
Methane Emissions
Decaying natural fibers in landfills release methane — a greenhouse gas 28 times more potent than CO₂. Every ton of linen in landfill is an ongoing emissions source.
Textile Waste Recycling Statistics, 2025
🌊
Microplastic Pollution
Synthetic fibers shed microplastics during laundering and decomposition. Textiles account for 35% of global microplastic ocean pollution — 190,000 tons enter waterways annually.
Global Clothing Waste Report, 2025
🏔️
Landfill Space
Textiles occupy at least 7% of landfill space globally. Synthetic fibers can take over 200 years to decompose — meaning today's discarded hotel linen outlasts the hotel itself.
Business Waste / EPA MSW Data, 2025
💨
Carbon Footprint
The textile industry contributes 10% of global carbon emissions — more than aviation and maritime shipping combined. Extending textile life through recycling directly reduces this footprint.
Global Clothing Waste Statistics, 2025
💧
Water Consumption
It takes 2,700 liters of water to produce a single cotton shirt. Discarding textiles without recycling destroys the embedded water investment of every item produced.
Global Clothing Waste Statistics, 2025
📈
Accelerating Problem
Global textile waste reached 120 million metric tons in 2024 and is projected to exceed 150 million tons annually by 2030. The hospitality industry's share will grow with it unless action is taken now.
BCG Report, August 2025
Technology Partner

Cloud Linen Pro knows when linen is ready to leave — before it's ever donated.

Cloud Linen Pro is an enterprise RFID and AI-powered linen management platform operating inside major hotel brands across three continents. Every linen item in a CLP-enabled property is individually tagged and tracked — from its first wash cycle through its last.

The platform's LinenAI engine predicts when individual items are approaching end-of-life based on wash count, weight degradation, and scan data — flagging linen for retirement before it fails in service. That means when linen enters the Aura recycling stream, it arrives with a complete data record: what it is, how long it was in service, and exactly when it left.

No other textile recycling organization has this. Aura's chain-of-custody documentation is credible because it starts at the first wash — not at the pickup truck.

How Cloud Linen Pro Works
1
RFID tags are sewn into every linen item at the manufacturer or upon delivery
2
Fixed readers and handheld scanners log every item through laundry, storage, and room assignment in real time
3
LinenAI analyzes wash count and scan patterns to predict when items approach end-of-life
4
Flagged items enter the Aura stream — with their full data record — creating a verified, documented donation
Live CLP Deployments
Hyatt Regency Seattle
1,200 rooms · Seattle, WA
InterContinental Taipei
Taipei, Taiwan
Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands
Inventory counting time reduction
at Hyatt Regency Seattle
90%
Aura's Role

What Aura makes possible — at scale.

By connecting hotels to vetted recyclers through Cloud Linen Pro's RFID tracking infrastructure, Aura closes the three gaps that prevent hospitality textile recycling today: network, documentation, and chain-of-custody verification.

A hotel that partners with Aura doesn't just divert waste — it receives verified data that feeds directly into corporate ESG reports, satisfies new regulatory requirements, and supports IRS-compliant donation documentation. Sustainable disposal becomes as simple as setting linen aside.

Lbs tracked per year (current)
8,760+
Hotel partners active
3
Lbs tracked per year (at 100 hotels)
~2.9M
Landfill diverted (at 500 hotels)
~14.6M lbs
Cost to partner hotels
$0
Regulatory Landscape

The regulations are coming. Aura is already ready.

Hotels that partner with Aura now are ahead of mandatory requirements taking effect across major markets.

European Union
EU Waste Framework Directive
EU member states are now required to implement selective textile collection systems and set recycling targets. Hotels operating in Europe face mandatory textile waste reporting requirements under this framework.
Directive 2018/851 — effective 2025
United States
California EPR Textile Law
California passed the first US Extended Producer Responsibility law for textiles, requiring manufacturers to fund recycling systems. Industry experts expect this to influence federal legislation and other state programs in the near term.
InnStyle / California Legislature, 2025
Global ESG Standards
Corporate Sustainability Reporting
The EU's CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) and global ESG frameworks increasingly require hospitality companies to report verified waste diversion data — not just intentions. Aura provides the documentation to meet these standards.
CSRD / ScienceDirect Hospitality Research, 2023
Take Action

Be part of the solution.

Join the growing network of hotels turning end-of-life linen into documented, verified environmental impact — at no cost to your property.