Developing a pilot circular system for post-consumer textile waste in the Mediterranean
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B NEXT Mediterranean Sea Basin (NEXT MED)Description
(1.2) Project Implementation and Operation Manual(EN)
(1.3) Project Steering Committee and Project Steering Meetings(EN)
(1.4) Strategic and Operations Reports(EN)
(1.5) Waste2Fashion MEAL System(EN)
(2.1) Communication users access info, tools, and stories, fostering understanding of sustainable fashion.(EN)
(2.2) Local awareness-raising campaigns generate the right behaviour change on post-consumer textile waste(EN)
(2.3) Policy- and decision-makers build capacities on sustainability and textile waste reduction.(EN)
(3.1) Cross-border post-consumer textile waste treatment pilot implemented(EN)
(3.2) Sustainable circular business plans for continued treatment of post-consumer textile waste delivered(EN)
(4.1) Training academy has improved capacities of designers/start-ups to reduce/valorise textile waste(EN)
(4.2) Post-consumer textile waste valorisation initiatives implemented by designers and start-ups(EN)
(5.1) Regional policy mechanisms have endorsed Guidelines for post-consumer textile waste management(EN)
(5.2) A dissemination and exploitation campaign has enhanced awareness of and sustainability of results(EN)
Thematic information
Priority:
(VI-B_MSB_2) Priority 2: A greener, low-carbon and resilient MediterraneanPriority specific objective:
RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economyPriority policy objective (Interreg specific objective):
PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobilityType of intervention:
075 Support to environmentally-friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEsPartners (7)
Lead Partner: Agència de Residus de Catalunya
Partner’s ID if not PIC: Q-5856373-E | PROFIT MAKING: False ~ STATUS PUBLIC: True
Department: MedWaves, the UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre for SCP
Address: Pg. de la Zona Franca, 107, 08038 Barcleona, Spain
Legal status: public
Organisation type: N.a.
Website: https://www.medwaves-centre.org/
Total budget: EUR 744 185.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 658 603.72
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 88.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 85 581.28
- FabricAID SAL
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Name: FabricAID SAL
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 1023346 | PROFIT MAKING: True ~ STATUS PUBLIC: False
Address: Mkalles - Industrial District -Debahy BuildingMkalles, Lebanon
Legal status: private
Organisation type: N.a.
Website (not verified): http://www.fabricaid.me
Total budget: EUR 362 368.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 320 695.68
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 88.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 41 672.32
- La Fédération Tunisienne du Textile et de l‘Habillement
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Name: La Fédération Tunisienne du Textile et de l‘Habillement
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 1576522C | PROFIT MAKING: False ~ STATUS PUBLIC: False
Address: 51 Rue Tarek Ibn Zied, Mutuelle ville, 1082 Tunis, Tunisia
Legal status: private
Organisation type: N.a.
Website: https://www.ftth.tn/
Total budget: EUR 442 140.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 391 293.90
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 88.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 50 846.10
- Fondazione Museo del Tessuto di Prato
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Name: Fondazione Museo del Tessuto di Prato
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 92064220483 (C.F.) | PROFIT MAKING: False ~ STATUS PUBLIC: False | Only for commercial activities (EN)
Address: Via Santa Chiara, 24 , 59100 Prato, Italy
Legal status: private
Organisation type: N.a.
Website: http://www.museodeltessuto.it
Total budget: EUR 264 820.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 234 365.70
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 88.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 30 454.30
- Next Technology Tecnotessile Società Nazionale di Ricerca r.l.
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Name: Next Technology Tecnotessile Società Nazionale di Ricerca r.l.
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 00640450482 (C.F.) | PROFIT MAKING: False ~ STATUS PUBLIC: False
Address: Via del Gelso 13, 59100 Prato , Italy
Legal status: private
Organisation type: N.a.
Website: https://www.tecnotex.it/en/
Total budget: EUR 391 874.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 346 808.49
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 88.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 45 065.51
- بنك الكساء المصرى
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Name: بنك الكساء المصرى
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 716 / 2015 | PROFIT MAKING: False ~ STATUS PUBLIC: False
Address: 8608 ATEF MADKOUR STREET MOKATTAMCAIRO, Egypt
Legal status: private
Organisation type: N.a.
Website: https://egyptianclothingbank.org/
Total budget: EUR 312 292.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 276 378.42
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 88.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 35 913.58
- مركز البيئة والتنمية للإقليم العربي وأوروبا
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Name: مركز البيئة والتنمية للإقليم العربي وأوروبا
Department: Sustainable Growth Programme
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 115/1992 Diplomatic List | PROFIT MAKING: False ~ STATUS PUBLIC: True
Address: 2 El Hegaz Street, Cedare Building, P.O. Box Cairo, Egypt
Legal status: public
Organisation type: N.a.
Website: http://www.cedare.int
Total budget: EUR 305 135.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 270 044.47
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 88.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 35 090.53
Partners map
Developing a pilot circular system for post-consumer textile waste in the Mediterranean
Developing a pilot circular system for post-consumer textile waste in the Mediterranean
Developing a pilot circular system for post-consumer textile waste in the Mediterranean
Developing a pilot circular system for post-consumer textile waste in the Mediterranean
Developing a pilot circular system for post-consumer textile waste in the Mediterranean
Developing a pilot circular system for post-consumer textile waste in the Mediterranean
Lead partner
Project partner
Summary
Project acronym: Waste2Fashion~A_T_2.4_...
Project ID: 00035
Project start date: 2025-11-11
Project end date: 2028-11-10
Project status:
ongoingRelevant linked projects:
- STAND Up! - Sustainable Textile Action for Networking and Development of circular economy business ventures in the Mediterranean.
- ENICBC MED, Strategic Projects. (EN) | MedWaves, the UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre for SCP through the Waste Agency of Catalonia (ARC) was the leading partner of the project. The Consortium developed a training programme on circular economy and sustainability in the textile and fashion sector that complemented the MedWaves-led green business development methodologies used in the Training and Incubation activites. The training programme together with the incubation methodologies will be finetuned, improved and used in the Academy and Lab activities of WP4, with special relevance to the analysis of the circular business models related to collection, recycling and upcycling. This business models will be used to provide specific guidance to the start-ups, SMEs and entrepreneurs that will benefit of the activities.
- Start-ups and entrepreneurs that benefited from STAND Up!, especially those on the valorisation of textile waste will have the opportunity to further build on their capacities in eco-design, circular economy and business development and to make connections with the organisations hosting the local pilot of WP3 in order to provide new sources of materials for these start-ups.
- The IPR reports that analysed the IPR national frameworks of Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Italy and Spain will be used to better assess beneficiaries of WP4 on how to protect the IPR of their circular solutions. (EN), CIRCUTEX - Sustainable and circular textile waste container (funded by the Waste Agency of Catalonia) (EN) | Solidança. the Catalan WP3 pilot host, leaded the CIRCUTEX project to generate, in collaboration with the Eurecat Foundation, a nonwoven fabric from recovered textile materials. The fabric has been primarily used to produce textile waste container, along with an awareness-raising campaign on post-consumer textile waste.
- Containers' fabric is a felt made from monomaterial polyester fibres (70% recycled post-consumer textile waste) and laser engraved without inks or pigments, therefore it is easily recyclable.
- The Project will benefit from the learnings obtained from the different stages to create the final product: the processes followed to recycle the polyester, on the required quality of the nonwoven fabric obtained and the potential applications for new product creation. This knowledge will be made available to beneficiaries of both WP3 and WP4 in order to ease the valorisation of the waste. (EN), Circular Wool (EN) | Solidança coordinates CircularWool’s Project. It’s main goal was to search for new lines of textile recycling, specifically to obtain a new quality filament obtained based on post-consumer recycled wool. CircularWool was a cooperation project between different textile organisations in the value chain to promote the development of recycled textile material and incorporate it into local production. The main areas that the project work out were:
- - A first stage of classification and separation where the Solidança selection staff selected the pieces not suitable for commercialization and which, therefore, were destined for recycling and separated by color.
- - A second phase that consisted of shredding these pieces of clothing to, in a third stage, create the new filament from them.
- - Finally, to close the circle, the filament was marketed with the intention of creating new textile products from post-consumer recycled wool.
- The project has managed to generate a high-quality yarn with a recycled wool base in 3 different colours, incorporating low-impact materials (recycled cotton and Ecovero, a fibre of regenerated cellulosic origin). The Action will benefit from the process of recycling yarn, the quality of the final wool obtained and the potential application by local fashion designers.
- Sinergies with Waste2Fashion are directly linked into de sorting phase, while Solidança could sort by colors, couldn’t sort by type of fibres. So the quality of yarns made by that process was not so high, as the one that the project W2F will help to promote. Introducing Technology in the sorting phase, providing the sort by types of fibres will help Solidança and other beneficiaries to improve they outcomes and provide a hight quality valorisation secondary material.
- Waste2Fashion will also benefit from this learning through the knowledge developed in the disassembly part of the clothes and the preparation for recycling. (EN), RESYNTEX (GAP ID: 641942) (EN) | RESYNTEX is an H2020 research project which aimed to produce secondary raw materials from unwearable textile waste.
- Waste2Fashion will exploit the learnings of this project that covered the whole value chain of post-consumer textiles waste management:
- - identification of different post-consumer textile collection approaches, performance evaluation of new value chains;
- - innovative business models for the chemical and textile industries and automated sorting and cleaning of textiles as input for biochemical processes, as well as a complete reprocessing line for basic textile components;
- - improvement of collection approaches particularly for non-wearable textiles for recycling by changing citizen’s behaviour and creation of tools for higher social involvement and recycling promotion
- - finally, its data aggregation system implemented in order to ensure waste traceability and also provide relevant data for economic and environmental assessment. (EN), Trash2Cash (EN) | Trash2Cash was an EU funded H2020 research project which aimed to create new regenerated fibres from pre-consumer and post-consumer waste. It was also pioneering a new way of developing materials.
- Waste2Fashion will exploit the learnings on the recycling process of textile waste structured in 3 stages of design, application and refinement and on the prototyping phase and the final product concepts obtained. (EN), Transitions to CIRCULAR economy practices in TEXTILE and apparel MSMEs along the lifecycle in Huzhou and Shaoxing - China (SwitchAsia – Promoting SCP) (EN) | ARC-Medwaves is partner of this project which stems from the need to accelerate the transition to circular economy in a key industry in the Chinese region of Shanghai. As a matter of fact, the country is the world largest textile and apparel producer and exporter, with a high negative environmental impact.
- The main goals of the project are:
- - Improved sustainable management, resource efficiency and adoption of circular economy principles by the local textile and fashion industry;
- - Conditions enabled for a conducive policy environment among key stakeholders for circular textile industry in Huzhou and Shaoxing;
- - Increased access of textile and apparel industry to financing for eco-design, recycling investments and clean technology transfer.
- Waste2Fashion will use and capitalize the Best Practices Handbook for resource efficiency in textile manufacturing processes developed as well as the results of the pilots implemented in industrial parks on circular textile waste management. The project will also benefit from the knowledge developed during the technical assistance phase, where circular strategies will be implemented. Eco-design handbooks, both for trainers and MSMES, will also be consulted and used.
- The project will also benefit from activities linked to eco-innovation. The Chinese ecosystem will be a source of inspiration with the research for solutions for the textile circular economy, which is very important for the project, since this is a very specialized productive ecosystem with cutting-edge technologies. (EN), CREACT4MED (EuropeAid Programme) (EN) | Fashion designers and start-ups working on textile waste valorisation that have benefited from the project will be targeted for the Eco-design Academy and Lab to further build capacities and to make connections with the organisations of the pilots to reduce and reuse post-consumer textile waste. (EN), CIRCE - Interreg Europe (EN) | CircE Project (European regions toward Circular Economy) involved 8 partners both at regional and local scale and representatives of different European social and economic scenarios.
- ARC has been one of the partners involved in this projecte. The main landmark has been the creation of the Catalan Fashion Pact. The Pact was born with the desire to add and coordinate the efforts of all the agents of the textile value chain and to respond jointly and effectively to the challenges of the sector, establishing common objectives and generating instruments that make possible the transformation of the sector towards a circular model.
- Nowadays ARC is coordinating this action in Catalonia. There are more than 80 organizations involved, all related with the textile and fashion supply chain. From manufacturers, to brands, academy, and waste collectors and recyclers. The Fashion pact is coordinating diferent cooperation projects that are improving the recycling value chain in Catalonia. Two main agents in this projects and ecosystem are COLEO and PICVISA, both are developers of new Technology for the sorting process. They also use NIR Technology for the fiber and color classification.
- Waste2Fashion will use the knowledge and practices that are being generated through the cooperation between this agents. Meeting will be organized to share views and replication opportunities accross the Mediterranean. (EN), RegioGreenTex (I3-2021-INV1)
- Project Number: 101083731 (EN) | NTT has extensive experience in sorting technologies, having designed and prebuilt a semi-automatic prototype machine. Analysis of gaps and bottlenecks of textile value chain and support the investment portfolio implementation. The know-how and the expertise will be part of the new textile recycling centre created in the Tuscany region. The activities and applications will be defined by both regional and national policy guidelines. (EN), Redol (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01)
- Project Number: 101091668 (EN) | The project has been conceived to transform EU cities into hubs for circularity implementing 0 residues strategies while fostering industrial-urban symbiosing (I-US) approaches among local and regional actors; 5 new circular value chains will be re-designed (packaging, plastics, CDW, textiles, WEEE). NTT (PP3) and the Municipality of Prato (Associate 3 to the project) will follow developments within the projects to build capacity on I-US and setting up its own Hub for Circularity. REDOL knowledge transfer will enable to map all existing I-US potential activities in the city, engage local actors to guarantee the application and mutual learning process for CE, and develop a stronger governance model with all the actors involved at local, national and EU level. (EN), Sustainable Textiles Increasing Lebanon’s Labour Opportunities (STILL Opportunities) through the NEXUS fund from The Netherlands (EN) | 1. Establishment of collection & manual sorting infrastructure (300 collection bin distribution) in Lebanon;
- This ensures the sustainable collection of post-consumer textiles to use the technology. The implementation of the technology will allow FabricAID to further expand this collection capacity without having to worry about sorting delays. In addition, FabricAID will be able to sort for remanufacturing/recycling organizations with specific % material needs (for example Development Inc in Lebanon, which needs 100% polyester for its manufacturing process). This was not previously possible and will allow FabricAID to upskill its sorting staff and enter a new market.
- 2. Clothing redistribution network targeting vulnerable community members across Lebanon (and Jordan);
- The increased sorting capacity at FabricAID’s warehouse will allow faster fulfillment of the needs of our vulnerable community stores. These stores are aimed at providing a dignified shopping experience for the 88 million people across the MENA region who can’t afford to buy decent clothing items.
- 3. Upcycling (Re-)Manufacturing Hub (tailored upcycling);
- The sorting system established through the proposed project will allow FabricAID to enhance its internal and external capacity to sort for eco-design in upcycling. FabricAID has identified this as a major challenge towards sustainable designs within the upcycling sector. As the information on labels are often missing or not correct, different types of materials are often combined in upcycled design pieces. Through the sorting machine, FabricAID will be able to provide on-demand types of materials & colors to support upcycling designers with their eco-design pieces. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 822 814.00
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 498 190.38
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 88.50%
Co-financing sources:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 081 - Participations in joint actions across borders, Measurement unit:
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RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
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RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B NEXT Mediterranean Sea Basin (NEXT MED)
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384 / 384 (100%)
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