Description du projet
Un système circulaire pour le recyclage des déchets textiles ménagers de l’Europe
Moins de 1 % des matériaux utilisés pour produire des vêtements sont recyclés pour en faire de nouveaux vêtements. À partir de janvier 2025, une directive impose aux 27 États membres de mettre en œuvre un système de collecte des déchets textiles ménagers à part et à respecter des objectifs de recyclage minimaux de plus en plus contraignants. La législation ne peut régler le problème à elle seule. La création d’un système circulaire destiné aux déchets textiles post-consommation est confrontée à de nombreux défis, notamment l’absence de normes à l’échelle européenne pour la collecte et le tri des déchets textiles dans les pays, des déclarations de composition erronées, des différences au niveau de la qualité des matériaux et un manque de données fiables de la part des parties prenantes de la chaîne de valeur. Le projet T-REX, financé par l’UE, vise à démontrer comment transformer les déchets textiles ménagers en une nouvelle matière première et en un nouveau modèle économique pour l’industrie textile, en associant les acteurs clés de l’ensemble de la chaîne de valeur.
Objectif
The global consumption of textiles is increasing, with global production of the two most relevant fibres, cotton and polyester, expected to grow by 40% before 2023. There is also no EU-wide plan on how to deal with the existing and anticipated textile waste: currently less than 1% of the material used to produce clothing is recycled into new clothing in a closed-loop process while 87% is landfilled or incinerated. By January 2025 new EU Directive 2018/851 will require all member states to establish a separate household textile waste collection and respect increasing minimum recycling goals, but the pure legislative approach cannot alone solve the growing textile waste problem. Based on estimates from experts, we see that 1% of textile waste entering closed loops leads to 100B euros market loss each year. If a 30% recycling rate is reached (similar to average plastic packaging recycling rates), we will be able to valorize a 30 billion euros/year market.
The ambition of T-REX is to contribute to a paradigm shift from household textile waste into desired feedstock. Moreover, we aim to demonstrate that this new commodity and the business models based on it can be completely implemented within the EU. By involving major players across the whole value chain, we aim to demonstrate that a new ecosystem approach, with harmonized methods and quality criteria, can lead to a better understanding of our current textile waste and therefore better upcycling rates into new garments. We also intend to demonstrate that such products can appeal to consumers while at the same time be designed for further recycling. Our goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% across the complete value chain by 2030 by helping to end plastic waste.
This project will arm the EU with a commercially viable option to tackle the textile waste and the environmental problems it causes, whilst offering new fields to explore for EU businesses, new know-how for our citizens and, new workforces for the future.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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