Project description
A smart solution for clothes recycling
Garments sent for recycling must first be manually disassembled to separate recyclable from non-recyclable parts. The complexity of this process hinders the fashion industry from adopting recycling and becoming circular. To tackle this challenge, the EU-funded Resortecs project uses thermal technology to automate textile disassembly, allowing for better and faster recycling. Resortecs offers solutions to facilitate circularity for key stakeholders in the textile value chain. At manufacturing, brands can make clothing designed for recycling thanks to Smart Stitch™ and Smart Rivet™, heat-dissolvable threads and rivet buttons that perform as regular ones but melt at high temperatures (150-200 °C). At end-of-life, the Smart Disassembly™ industrial ovens automatically dismantle and sort tonnes of clothing so that recyclers can recover pure, high-quality fabric for recycling.
Objective
Recycling clothes is complicated. Making fabrics new again isnt the only challenge threads, zippers and buttons that hold them together also need dealing with. With Resortecs, Regeneration BV makes disassembly easy, so that more clothes can be recycled at higher quality and in less time. Typically, a garment sent for recycling needs to be manually taken apart, so that its recyclable fabric can be isolated. It is a technical and economic bottleneck that withholds the industry of becoming circular. Resortecs addresses this challenge with clever alternatives that automate disassembly: 1. Smart Stitch, heat-dissolvable threads melting at high temperatures (150-200C), separating the fabric from labels, zippers and buttons. 2. Smart Rivet, heat-dismountable rivets allowing for jeans and other garments to be easily dismantled. 3. Smart Disassembly, industrial-scale ovens in which large amounts of garments can be automatically heated, disassembled and sorted prior to recycling.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Topic(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF - HORIZON EIC Accelerator Blended FinanceCoordinator
9950 Waarschoot
Belgium
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.