SOLSTICE - Demonstration of chemical recycling technologies for textiles
SOLSTICE
SOLSTICE - Demonstration of chemical recycling technologies for textiles
Context
Due to the obligation to collect textiles separately from 1st January 2025, more and more textiles will be collected. Currently, only mechanical recycling is available. However, it has limitations, especially for multi-fiber textiles. Chemical recycling could provide a solution to this point. Nevertheless, chemical recycling technologies need to be more mature.
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Objectives
Demonstrate the ability of four chemical recycling technologies to effectively recycle, under mild conditions, the main flows of polymer-based textiles (polyester, elastane, polyamide and polyurethane).
Recyc' Elit is in charge of polyester recycling.
Unfolding
Tests at laboratory scale, on a pilot and then on a pre-industrial demonstrator, first on post-production feedstocks and then, secondly, on post-consumer feedstocks.
Expected results
Validation of a closed-loop recycling for polyester.
Demonstrator at TRL7 for the recycling of polyester by mid-2027 at the latest.
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