Project description
Sustainable home textiles and polyurethane foam products
Currently, the limited standardisation of life-cycle assessment methodologies complicates the environmental evaluation of home textiles, such as towels and curtains, and polyurethane foam products, such as furniture cushions; this fragmentation significantly hinders accurate sustainability benchmarking. The EU-funded GREENSPIRE project is developing methods, data sets, tools, and guidance in order to solve this problem. It will work closely with industry, policymakers, researchers, and consumers to improve environmental assessment, eco-design requirements, and circular economy principles. Its open-access tools and guidance will help businesses, including SMEs, design more sustainable products and reduce their environmental impacts.
Objective
GREENSPIRE is a 48-month project aiming to co-develop and co-validate, together with industry stakeholders (manufacturers and designers), scientific communities, policymakers, and consumers, new Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs), datasets, tools, and guidance based on the PEF methodology for high-priority product groups. Specifically, home textiles (bed, table, toilet, kitchen linen, curtains, blinds, valances) and polyurethane (PU) foams (flexible foams for mattresses, cushions, and pillows, and rigid foams for PUR/PIR insulation). These outputs will enable consistent, reliable, and comparable environmental impact assessments, validated through a comprehensive evaluation of added value and cost-efficiency relative to alternative approaches.
Using a full life cycle perspective GREENSPIRE seeks to significantly reduce environmental impacts of selected products across their life cycle; inform and support eco-design requirements aligned with the European Sustainability Product Regulation (ESPR); provide industry, SMEs, and policymakers with open-access, user-friendly tools and training to implement PEF methodologies; and promote circular economy practices through enhanced data quality, transparency, and uptake of sustainability metrics and tools across sectors.
By combining scientific rigour with stakeholder co-creation and practical applicability, GREENSPIRE will deliver robust methodologies, actionable insights, and scalable solutions to advance sustainable production, eco-design, and circular economy practices in the European home textile and bio-chemical sectors, supporting both environmental and socio-economic objectives.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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HORIZON.2.6.7 - Circular Systems
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2025-01
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28045 MADRID
Spain
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