Indorama Ventures has partnered with like-minded companies in the innovation-driving T-REX project, which recycles domestic waste textiles into new garments. This lays down a common protocol for textile recycling across Europe and places the firm on the roadmap to achieving its commitments by way of promoting circular economy practices with reduced levels of wastes.
Funded by the European Union, the T-REX project brings together 13 companies and research organizations who work together to find new ways of innovative recycling for textiles. Indorama Ventures comes into this joint exercise with its processed output using such waste to turn it into high-quality polyester yarn. With its advanced techniques, the impurities from the waste are taken out to result in superior yarn for new clothing products.
The T-REX has the key objective of coming up with a large-scale plan for textile recycling in Europe. This initiative reduces the environmental impact caused by textile wastes while promoting resource sustainability through the re-use of unwanted clothes into developing valuable materials for new products.
Indorama Ventures’ participation in the T-REX project showcases its commitment to driving homeborne sustainable solutions in the fashion industry. Drawing from its deep experience with manmade-fiber processes, especially in polyester, the company seeks to use circular feedstock in aiding its partners in their set sustainability goals.
The T-REX project shows the way toward a more sustainable future as the industry continues to battle environmental issues in connection with textile wastes. Through collaborations with other industry giants, Indorama Ventures works toward a new circular fashion economy that would execute the efficient recycling and reuse of textile waste.
The T-REX project is simply the greatest example of what collaborative efforts can result in, concerning this problem of textile wastes. Under the leadership of Indorama Ventures, this initiative has huge potential and promise to lead European fashion into the sustenance and circularity of the industry.
Source: Indorama Ventures