Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...

EuRIC Textiles and AISBL believe Europe’s textile sorting and recycling industry is grappling with a severe crisis that is more significant than the pandemic and could lead to domino effect. The ...

The Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) of RWTH Aachen University can look forward to two award winners in 2023: In his master’s thesis, ITA master’s graduate student Flávio André Marter Diniz developed ...

For two years, the Autosort for Circular Textiles Demonstrator (ACT UK) project has worked to create a blueprint for an automated textile sorting and pre-processing (ATSP) plant that can convert ...

A new EU-funded project has been launched to develop a deposit return scheme (DRS) for post-consumer textiles across Europe.

Its purchase was part-funded by the Automatic-Sorting for Circularity and Textiles (ACT UK) project – which is supported by Innovate UK. Cyndi Rhoades, co-founder and CEO of Circle-8 Textile ...

Inside NewRetex’s textile sorting facility in Denmark. Credit: © Circle-8 Textile Ecosystems Ltd. The acquisition is intended to transform the circular textile ...

In a joint statement from EuRIC Textiles and Municipal Waste Europe (MWE), the associations have called for intervention from the EU to prevent widespread bankruptcies. The situation has been caused ...

DONGGUAN, China, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- China's first fully automated textile waste sorting line has officially entered operation at Zhangjiagang Shanhesheng Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.

EuRIC Textiles, a branch of the European Recycling Industries' Confederation (EuRIC), and the non-profit Municipal Waste Europe (AISBL), report that Europe's textile sorting and recycling industry is ...