FIBERSORTING

What if … we would upcycle 20 million tons of post-consumer textiles from Europe and North-America that is annually being squandered into landfills and waste-incinerators? This would mean over 36 fully laden, mammoth ultra large crude carriers are necessary to transport enormous piles of discarded clothes, shoes, bed linen and so on. On top of that, we would need huge loads of time, labor and money to sort all discarded textiles out into homogeneous stocks of raw materials... Unless … we had some sort of a highly efficient technology that could accelerate the sorting process by at least a factor 10. The good news is that such a ground-breaking technology already exists... The Fibersort is a technology that automatically sorts large volumes of mixed post-consumer textiles by fibre type. Once sorted, these materials become reliable and consistent input materials for high value textile-to-textile recyclers.

Primary location: Wormerveer Netherlands