A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

Blend Re:wind, a new process that recycles cotton and polyester, has been introduced in Sweden by Mistra Future Fashion. The process breakthrough came after six years of research in textile recycling ...

A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...

Professor Kotohiro Nomura’s research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University developed two high-performance catalysts for efficient synthesis of value-added chemicals (fine chemicals, monomers) from ...

Japanese companies Itochu Corp., Teijin Limited and JGC Holdings Corp. have signed a joint agreement for the licensing of polyester chemical recycling technology to process discarded polyester textile ...