A new circular economy concept: from textile waste towards chemical and textile industries feedstock
Abstract
The RESYNTEX project aims at designing, developing and demonstrating new high environmental impact industrial symbiosis between the unwearable blends and pure components of textile waste and the chemical and textile industries. The project comprises: - a strategic design of the whole value chain from textile waste collection, until the new marketable feedstock for chemical & textile industrie, by which the symbiosis opportunities are evaluated (by public authorities and the private sector) in terms of their social, technical, economic, environmental and legislative aspects - the improvement of collection approaches particularly for non-wearable textiles for recycling by changing citizen’s behaviour and creation of tools for higher social involvement and recycling promotion. This will ensure a greater accessibility to textile waste as resource and increase the textile waste rates destined for recycling. With 50% collection rate all over Europe would be a significant improvement in order to provide large quantities of feedstock - a data aggregation system that will be developed and implemented in order to ensure waste traceability and also provide relevant data for economic and environmental assessment; - the development of new business models adapted for different synergies identified and for new markets. In addition, environmental LCA and LCC for different scenarios and identification of the most promising routes and synergies will support this objective - automation of the macro separation and sorting for pure or blended textiles, in order to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the whole recycling process - a new demonstration process based on a synergistic chemical and biotechnological cascading separation/transformation approach of textile basic components (proteins, cellulose, polyamide and polyester) from textile blends as basic feedstock materials for chemical & textile industries. Liquid and solid waste treatment and valorisation will close the loop.
Enzymatic Recycling
Publikationen
Project staff
Georg Gübitz
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Georg Gübitz
guebitz@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97001, 97402
Project Leader
01.06.2015 - 31.05.2019
Felice Quartinello
Dr.nat.techn. Felice Quartinello MSc.
felice.quartinello@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97488
Project Staff
01.06.2015 - 31.05.2019
BOKU partners
External partners
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
Dr. Andy Lambrechts
partner
The University of Manchester
Dr David Tyler
partner
CHIMAR Hellas S.A.
Mrs. Electra Papadopoulou,
partner
SOEX Textil-Vermarktungsges. m.b.H.
Pailak MZIKIAN
coordinator
ABOUTGOODS COMPANY
M. René LE CAIGNEC
partner
CEFIC - The European Chemical Industry Council
Dr. Jacques KOMORNICKI
partner
Tekstina d.d.
Lucija Kobal
partner
Valagro Carbone Renouvelable
Frédéric Bataille
partner
Sustainability Consult
Kathryn Sheridan
partner
SEPAREX S.A.S.
Audrey Ngomsik-Fanselow
partner
EURATEX - The European Apparel and Textile Confederation
Lutz Walter
partner
IOS - Institute for environmental protection and sensors
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Lobnik
partner
Dettin S.p.A.
Mr Giorgio Cafaggi
partner
Quantis Sàrl
Arnaud Dauriat
partner
Biochemtex SpA
Dr. Alessandra FRATTINI:
partner
ARKEMA
Jean-Luc DUBOIS
partner
Prospex Institute vzw
Dr. Marc Gramberger
partner
University of Maribor
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Dr. Bojana Vončina
partner
NTUA - National Technical University of Athens
Prof. Antonis Kokossis
partner