Project description
A circular system for recycling Europe’s household textile waste
Less than 1 % of materials used to produce clothing is recycled into new clothing. From January 2025, a directive requires 27 Member States to implement a separate household textile waste collection scheme and comply with rising minimum recycling objectives. Legislation is not enough to deal with the issue. Creating a circular system for post-consumer textile waste faces many challenges, including a lack of EU-wide standards for collecting and sorting textile waste across countries, inaccurate composition claims, variable material quality and a lack of reliable data across value chain stakeholders. The EU-funded T-REX project aims to demonstrate how household textile waste can become a new feedstock and business model for the textile industry by engaging key actors across the entire value chain.
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HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany
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Participants (10)
75008 Paris
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91054 Erlangen
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7821 AT Emmen
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67063 Ludwigshafen Am Rhein
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02300 Espoo
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94469 Deggendorf
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4030 Linz
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02150 Espoo
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1012KZ Amsterdam
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6221 XK Maastricht
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Partners (1)
1024 Ecublens Vd
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.