CREATING A CIRCULAR SYSTEM FOR POST-CONSUMER TEXTILE WASTE

Textile Recycling Excellence (T-REX) is a research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme from 2022-2025. 12 partners from across the value chain collaborate towards demonstrating a potential scalable solution for textile-to-textile recycling. This involves the collection and sorting of household textile waste to demonstrate the full recycling process of polyester, polyamide 6 and cotton from waste into new textiles or garments.

The aim of the project is to demonstrate sustainable and economically feasible business models for each actor along the value chain, to conduct lifecycle analysis of the circular process, to facilitate citizen engagement activities, to integrate digital tools that streamline the process of closed loop textile recycling and to produce circular design guidelines.