Spanish researchers want to make recycled polyester fibres from shoe waste
14/12/2016
Under a project called Life-Ecotex, the region’s footwear research and development institute, CTCR, will lead an initiative to recover polyester from post-consumer-use footwear uppers and turn it into recylced polyester fibres using a chemical process.
CTCR explained on announcing the initiative that the only options available to footwear companies until now were to use a mechanical recycling process that produced only lower-value material or throw the shoes into landfill. Its partners for the project include fibre manufacturer Ekorec.
It will run until 2020 and will have a total budget of more than €1.2 million.
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