Green Deal: New proposals to make sustainable products the norm and boost Europe’s resource independence
The Commission is presenting today a new strategy to make textiles more durable, repairable, reusable and recyclable, to tackle fast fashion, textile waste and the destruction of unsold textiles, and ensure the producers full respect of social rights
Marcus Wallenberg Prize to Professor Herbert Sixta for the development of Sustainable wood-based textile fibres
The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Herbert Sixta and Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres
Next-Gen ‘Bio-Based’ Synthetics Are Here, But When Will They Replace Polluting Polyester?
Circularity isn't a viable route to ‘sustainable synthetics’ and recycled PET (rPET) is not the answer. Because the processing of polyester devours most of the energy - not the raw material phase that recycling replaces
The Finnish startup – Nordic Bioproducts Group – has successfully spun a new plant-based textile fibre
Six months after the first wet spinning experiments with NBG’s cellulose dissolution method were performed, the first yarn was already made from the new Norratex textile fibre at the University of Tampere
Eastman to invest up to $1 billion to accelerate circular economy through building world’s largest molecular plastics recycling facility in France
This multi-phase project includes units that would prepare mixed plastic waste for processing, a methanolysis unit to depolymerize the waste, and polymer lines to create a variety of first-quality materials for specialty, packaging, and textile applications
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