T-REX Project consortium meets in Amsterdam
At the end of September, the T-REX Project consortium gathered at the Fashion for Good headquarters for our yearly in-person meeting.
Creating a circular system for post-consumer textile waste
T-REX Project brings together 13 major players from across the entire value chain to create a harmonised EU blueprint and business opportunities for closed loop sorting, and recycling of household textile waste. Transforming end-of-use textiles, from waste, into a desired feedstock, and a commodity for new business models that can be adopted at scale.
The challenges
Today, 2% of post–consumer textiles (in Europe) are diverted to fibre-to-fibre recycling. Creating a circular system for post-consumer textile waste currently faces many challenges, including a lack of standards for collecting and sorting textile waste across countries, inaccurate composition claims, uneven quality of materials, and a lack of reliable data across value chain stakeholders.
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T-REX Project consortium: Introducing Linz Textil
We continue our series of conversations with T-REX Project consortium partners. This time, we speak to Friedrich Schopf, CEO at Linz Textil Group, about the company’s role in the project and the future outlook for the textile industry.
T-REX Project and Race Against Waste run a Textile Race in Dutch schools
The T-REX Project consortium is launching a collaboration with Race Against Waste in a joint mission to inspire more people to participate in the transition to a circular economy, and help beat the ever mounting issue of discarded textiles.
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13 major players from across the entire value chain collaborate towards demonstrating a potential scalable solution for textile-to-textile recycling.
The organisations will establish transformational synergies between the waste management practices of Veolia, leading the post-consumer textile waste collection, sorting and division, and the feedstock needs of the respective textile recycling technologies of Infinited Fiber Company, BASF, and CuRe.
The recycled fibres will be converted to yarn by manufacturers Fulgar, Indorama Ventures and Linz Textil, from which adidas will create demonstration products with end of life in mind.
FAU will support the project with analytical expertise to maximise the conversion of multi-fibre textile waste into recycled fibre, and Aalto University will conduct citizens’ engagement activities to raise awareness of textile recycling practices, and analyse social impact.
Fashion for Good will lead industry communications, and conduct business viability and digital integration activities, supported by Quantis and Arapaha who will collect and analyse data from across the value chain for sustainability assessments and digital solution recommendations.
Aalto University
adidas
Arapaha
BASF
CuRe Technology
Fashion for Good
FAU, The Institute of Polymer Technology
Fulgar
Indorama Ventures
Infinited Fiber Company
Linz Textil
Quantis
Veolia
