THE POWER OF DESIGN-FOR-DISASSEMBLY IN GARMENT RECYCLING
EFFICIENT PRE-PROCESSING FOR AFFORDABLE RECYCLED TEXTILES
The European Union is setting ambitious targets for recycled content.
To meet these ambitious targets, mono-material alone will not suffice to provide the amount of high quality fabric-to-fabric recycled material. This is why adopting design-for-disassembly is proposed as a solution.
By designing textile products with disassembly in mind, preprocessing efficiency of multi-material products can be increased by up to 4.6X, resulting in an overall 3.3X yield increase across all textile products.
About the authors
Cédric Vanhoeck
Cédric is Resortecs’ co-founder and CEO. He holds an Industrial Design Engineering degree from TU Delft and a Brand Management Master’s degree from the Domus Academy Milan.
Rawaa Ammar
Rawaa is Resortecs’ Chief Sustainability & Impact Officer since 2019. She holds a Ph.D in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
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