A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

Japanese companies Itochu Corp., Teijin Limited and JGC Holdings Corp. have signed a joint agreement for the licensing of polyester chemical recycling technology to process discarded polyester textile ...

Blend Re:wind, a new process that recycles cotton and polyester, has been introduced in Sweden by Mistra Future Fashion. The process breakthrough came after six years of research in textile recycling ...

Professor Kotohiro Nomura’s research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University developed two high-performance catalysts for efficient synthesis of value-added chemicals (fine chemicals, monomers) from ...

A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...

The new joint venture will use a chemical-recycling technology called dimethyl terephthalate (DMT), which decomposes and converts polyester (PET) and then repolymerizes it. Notably, the DMT method ...

Sweden-based recycler Syre says it will work with global engineering and machinery firm ABB to explore technologies for industrial-scale textile recycling. ABB says a proposed Syre plant in Vietnam ...