Increasing Circularity and Sustainability in Textiles and Clothing in Europe

 

CISUTAC’s fields of application

Fashion

Today, less than 50% of used clothes are collected when they are no longer needed, and only 1% are recycled into new clothes. CISUTAC aims at improving sorting for reuse and repair, and promoting efficient management and utilisation of textile wastes, replacing virgin fibres with recycled fibres.

Workwear & PPE

Protective workwear is made with technical textiles, for which few recycling options exist today. CISUTAC aims at implementing a fully circular value chain, which still requires cost-efficient dismantling, sustainable and circular designs, and approval from public authorities.

Active goods

Outdoor gear (backpacks, tents, etc.) and sportswear are complex products with several components. CISUTAC aims at enabling repair (and dismantling) which will extend the product life and facilitate recycling when repair is no longer possible

Discover what CISUTAC is up to

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  • CISUTAC's solution for post-consumer textile waste management

    Our open-sourced tool revolutionises the way we approach post-consumer textile waste by prioritising data points for efficient sorting to reuse, and recycling.

  • CISUTAC shared visions

    Within CISUTAC, partners are developing a shared vision for a more circular and sustainable EU textile sector based on an assessment of EU developments enabling circularity, and national measures to implement the mandatory separate collection of discarded textiles. The visions explore different elements of circularity and advises on strategic directions to identify relevant innovation gaps and possible solutions emerging from CISUTAC.

CISUTAC activities

Running pilots to demonstrate the industrial application of new technologies for textile circularity

Developing the capacity and infrastructure for circular textiles and supporting a large scale sector-wide uptake

Building a better understanding of the textile actors and giving them insights on the value of circular textiles