Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...
The textile sorting industry, responsible for repurposing and recycling discarded textiles across Europe, is teetering on the “edge of collapse” according to EuRic Textiles. This comes after the ...
EuRIC Textiles and AISBL believe Europe’s textile sorting and recycling industry is grappling with a severe crisis that is more significant than the pandemic and could lead to domino effect. The ...
A consortium spanning seven European countries has launched the TexMat initiative to develop a deposit-return system for used ...
The Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) of RWTH Aachen University can look forward to two award winners in 2023: In his master’s thesis, ITA master’s graduate student Flávio André Marter Diniz developed ...
The organization says its NIR-SORT offering contains the molecular “fingerprints” of different kinds of textile fibers that can enable faster and more efficient sorting of fabrics at recycling ...
A new EU-funded project has been launched to develop a deposit return scheme (DRS) for post-consumer textiles across Europe.
EuRIC Textiles, a branch of the European Recycling Industries' Confederation (EuRIC), and the non-profit Municipal Waste Europe (AISBL), report that Europe's textile sorting and recycling industry is ...