Blend Recycling Breakthrough

December 5, 2017 Blend Recycling Breakthrough

Posted at December 5, 2017, 20:44h in Circularity, Materials by

In November 2017, the Swedish cross-disciplinary research program Mistra Future Fashion announced a major breakthrough in recycling polyester/cotton fiber blends. The process, the result of six years of research, is called Blend Re:wind and generates three circular outgoing product streams. Cotton is turned into new high-quality viscose filaments and polyester into two pure new monomers. The outputs can then be re-spun into new threads.

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Gabriel Arthur
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