T-REX Project has concluded
After three years of collaboration, innovation, and shared ambition, the T-REX Project has officially concluded.
Creating a circular system for post-consumer textile waste
T-REX Project brought 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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Reflections on the T-REX Project
Respected fashion journalist Megan Doyle writes a closing article reflecting on the the learnings of the T-REX Project.
Discover T-REX Project Resources on the Circular Textiles Platform
Aalto University’s Fashion/Textile Futures research group has launched a new section on the Circular Textiles platform, making key learnings from the project’s research easily accessible to both citizens and industry professionals.
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Project participants
13 major players from across the entire value chain collaborate towards demonstrating a potential scalable solution for textile-to-textile recycling.
The organisations have established 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 were converted to yarn by manufacturers Fulgar, Indorama Ventures and Linz Textil, from which adidas created demonstration products with end of life in mind.
FAU supported the project with analytical expertise to maximise the conversion of multi-fibre textile waste into recycled fibre, and Aalto University conducted citizens’ engagement activities to raise awareness of textile recycling practices, and analyse social impact.
Fashion for Good lead industry communications, and conducted business viability and digital integration activities, supported by Quantis and Arapaha who collected and analysed 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
