Source: www.fibre2fashion.com
Around 43 partners of the Regions for Green Textiles (RegioGreenTex) project met in Brussels to kickstart a three-year project that could change the way textile recycling is managed. RegioGreenTex will support tangible solutions at the small medium enterprises (SME) level, where textile waste becomes a value.
RegioGreenTex is a quadruple-helix partnership initiative aimed at mapping and reducing the difficulties, which currently exist in the implementation of a circular economy model within the textile ecosystem across the European Union (EU), the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (EURATEX) said in a press release.
The project will contribute towards maintaining and developing jobs in the EU textile sector, reshoring production in Europe, and making the EU textile value chain more competitive and resilient. It will contribute to the EU Green Deal objectives of reducing carbon footprint, energy, and water consumption.
Led by EURATEX, the project brings together 43 partners from 11 European regions, with 24 SMEs pioneering innovative solutions to recycle textile waste. Together the SMEs cover various value chain segments of circular textiles (sorting, recycling from material to fibre, removal of contaminants, processing of recycled fibres to new textile materials) and provide concrete solutions to EU value chain bottlenecks but also seize upon market opportunities. The project will also promote the development of five regional ReHubs in some of the most important textile regions in the EU.
