Design for Disassembly: engineering polymers to drive circularity in fashion

How can Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Thermodynamics come together to tackle one of the major bottlenecks hindering industrial-scale textile recycling? Dr. Acerina Trejo Machin, CTO at Resortecs, explains how the Belgian startup is reworking polymers to drive circularity in the fashion industry.

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The key role of waste management industry for a sustainable circular economy

The history of waste is a long journey of awareness, transformation and evolution. The waste management industry has gone from being a scrap manager to a producer of sustainable secondary raw materials. A transformation from which a new development model was born: the circular economy.
It is only through research and development, and the investments made by companies with the right legislative framework and incentives, that high levels of expertise and efficiency have been achieved. Collection and sorting are fundamental steps in the process that cannot be underestimated and simply harmonised.

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