Market Focus: Textiles Recycling – February 21, 2019

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Research Project for the Separation and Reprocessing of Mixed Textile Waste Within the textile network PlasTexTron©, Starlinger recycling technology is searching for an ecologically and economically sound solution for the recycling of mixed textile waste of multi-material composition. Three universities and eight Austrian companies are involved in the COIN-project TEX2MAT, which is led by the Plastics Cluster of ecoplus, the business agency of Lower Austria, and funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW). Continue reading » Groundbreaking Solutions to Recycle Blend Textiles without Quality Loss The four-year innovative partnership between the non-profit H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) finds groundbreaking solutions to recycle blend textiles into new fabrics and yarns – without any quality loss – through a hydrothermal (chemical) process. The technology will be scaled up and made available to the global fashion industry. Continue reading » Other news Recycling Cotton and Polyester with Blend Re:wind Mistra Future Fashion can now reveal breakthrough results after six years of research within textile recycling. Continue reading » New Technology May Revolutionize Textile Recycling Automatic rather than manual sorting provides new opportunities for increased textile recycling. In a unique pilot plant in Avesta, a thirty-metre machine uses optical sensors to sort textiles based on their fibre content. Continue reading » The Sorting Machine That Supports Closed Loop Textiles is Now in Production The Fibersort is a technology able to automatically sort large volumes of mixed post-consumer textiles based on fiber composition. These sorted materials are perfectly suited to become inputs for textile recycling processes. Continue reading » Post-Consumer Textile Collection is Step One, but then What? Only 0.1% of collected textile waste is remade into new garments. The take-make-dispose model of the apparel and textile industry is no longer in fashion, but what’s the reality on the ground? Continue reading » More news »

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