Textile Recycling Association’s Post

We are delighted to be able to finally confirm that the Textile Recycling Association is one of partners that will help to deliver a £4 million project to develop and pilot a pioneering fully-integrated, automated sorting and pre-processing plant for waste textiles, which could eventually divert thousands of tonnes from the waste stream each year. The Autosort for Circular Textiles Demonstrator (ACT UK) is a two-year project that will support the transition from uneconomic manual sorting of clothes and textiles that are not suitable for resale to highly-automated sorting and pre-processing, which can then be used as feedstock for existing and emerging recycling processes.  The project is being supported by funding from the Circular Fashion Programme supported by Innovate UK, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), all part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The lead organisation is UKFT Association with close involvement from Circle-8 Textile Ecosystems. As well as the Textile Recycling Association the other partners that will help to deliver this project are IBM, Marks and Spencer, Tesco, PANGAIA, New Look, Reskinned, Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd (SATCoL), Oxfam Wastesavers, Textile Recycling International Limited, Shred Station Ltd, Worn Again Technologies, English Fine Cottons, ALEX-BEGG AND COMPANY, Camira, Manufacturing Technology Centre, University of Leeds, The University of Huddersfield and WRAP. Read more here https://lnkd.in/eNkxMFau #circulareconomy #circulartextiles #circularfashion #textilerecycling #sustainability #sustainabletextiles