Dutch technology firm Avantium has introduced a technology to recycle polycotton textile waste and promote fibre-to-fibre ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of ...

Avantium has made a major breakthrough in the chemical recycling of poly-cotton textile waste breaking down cotton into ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Inspired by cotton candy, four friends spent more than a decade designing a machine that turns locally sourced plastic waste into thin fibers that can be used for ...

Erode’s Jothi Speciality Papers gives cotton scraps a new lease of life by turning them into biodegradable mannequins ...

Although extremely flammable, cotton is one of the most commonly used textiles due to its comfort and breathable nature. However, in a single step, researchers can reduce the flammability of ...

Chinese scientists have altered cotton fibres prior to dyeing to enable easier fabric decolorisation and boost textile recycling efforts.

Textile sorting to be automated The main challenge in recycling textile waste is ensuring consistent material composition. Allikas explains that from the beginning, his goal was to produce boards ...

According to Avantium, the process involves treating polycotton waste with highly concentrated hydrochloric acid and fully hydrolysing the cotton cellulose into glucose. The solid polyester ...