Project description
Textile recycling for a sustainable future
Textile waste is a pressing global issue, with vast quantities of discarded clothing and fabrics ending up in landfills or incinerated each year. This rampant waste contributes to environmental degradation and squanders valuable resources. It exacerbates the fashion industry’s carbon footprint. Addressing this problem, Danish start-up Textile Change has developed a groundbreaking chemical recycling technology, known as the ReTeWa project. This innovative solution aims to tackle the challenge of recycling textile waste, including blended fabrics, paving the way for a more sustainable and circular textile industry. Specifically, it will enable fibre-to-fibre recycling of textile waste, including blends of polyester, natural fibres, and regenerated cellulose fibres. This is in line with the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles.
Objective
Textile Change is a Danish start-up company developing a promising and patent pending chemical recycling technology for fiber-to-fiber recycling of textile waste. The technology can be used for blended textiles including any combination of polyester, natural fibers (cotton, hemp etc.) and regenerated cellulose fibers (viscose, lyocell, etc.).
The new EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles tackles aims to ensure that by 2030 textile products placed on the EU market are made as much as possible of recycled fibers, but to reach this goal scalable recycling solutions for fiber-to-fiber recycling is needed. At Textile Change we are developing a scalable solution that can support the EU strategy and ensure fiber-to-fiber recycling for blended textiles.
Two of three founders of Textile Change are women, and our focus in the WomenTech programme will be on market validation and product optimization.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes recycling
- engineering and technology materials engineering fibers
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02
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7100 VEJLE
Denmark
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