Avantium and the University of Amsterdam have developed a patented, scalable method for recycling polycotton textile waste: ...

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

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

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

Waste cotton has been frequently dumped in the canals for the past few months. Even on Wednesday night, more than a tonne of ...

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

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 ...

Their discovery is applicable to polyester cotton blends, where the recovered ... and developing innovative ways to achieve value from waste. The circular economy strategy also includes a focus ...

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 ...

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 ...