Project description
A sustainable solution to transform textiles
Textile waste poses an environmental challenge, with millions of tonnes generated annually. Traditional linear production and consumption models exacerbate this issue, leading to resource depletion and pollution. Ineffective recycling technologies further compound the problem, leaving textiles to clog landfills and pollute oceans. The EU-funded SOLSTICE project, through a comprehensive 5R strategy (refuse/reduce, reuse, repair, repurpose, recycle), aims to engage stakeholders, develop innovative sorting and recycling technologies, and establish a traceability system. This ambitious endeavour will unfold across four EU territories and be replicable to other polymers and territories, promising significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Objective
SOLSTICE aims at demonstrating 4 replicable systemic solutions for the territorial deployment of the circular economy (CEC) for the major industrial sector of textiles (62Mt produced/year). All steps of waste prevention and management will be included in a 5R strategy: Refuse/Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Repurpose, Recycle. The solutions developed can be replicated and cross-linked with the plastics value chain.
SOLSTICE will:
• Develop tools and strategies to implement the 5R approach:
oFor the 4R Refuse/Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Repurpose:
- Engage the different stakeholders (industrial companies, local authorities, citizens) to revise their supply chains / behaviour, and become more sober, circular and sustainable.
- Scope and map current state, carry research on and analysis of relevant circular interventions per territory,
- Create a methodology and blueprints of CEC interventions to be tested/piloted
- Define circular guidelines and indicators
oRecycle: Demonstrate innovative chemical recycling technologies, able to treat efficiently part of the major streams of polymers in textiles and plastics (PET, elastane, polyamide, polyurethane) in mild conditions. The technologies allow to recycle multicomponent and bio-based materials, complex streams, and to recycle textile into textile or coating into coating (closed-loop) or into added-value applications (open loop). They are easily adaptable and allow a local recycling.
• Set-up a traceability system based on a Digital Product Passport and designed in relation to existing initiatives.
The demonstration will take place in 4 EU representative and complementary territories. Knowledge-transfer and cooperation between the cities and regions involved, and with CCRI and other stakeholders and projects, will ensure an optimised development and deployment of the new circular concepts, as well as the replicability of the concept and a maximal impact. The deployment of SOLSTICE could save 4.3-10.8 Mt GHG emissions/year by 2030.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencespolyurethane
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
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59100 Prato
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69130 Ecully
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69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
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10435 Berlin
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56124 PISA
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38031 Grenoble
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50142 Firenze
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01100 BELLIGNAT
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73770 Denkendorf
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08225 Terrassa
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69200 VENISSIEUX
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84120 Pertuis
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59100 Prato
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08907 Barcelona
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1092 AD Amsterdam
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08201 Sabadell Barcelona
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08040 Barcelona
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69616 Villeurbanne
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08007 Barcelona
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75013 Paris
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72805 LICHTENSTEIN
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59880 Tekirdag
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