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UKFT leads £4m waste textile sorting project

15/06/2023
UKFT leads £4m waste textile sorting project

The UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) has launched a £4 million two-year project to pilot an automated sorting and pre-processing plant for waste textiles. The Autosort for Circular Textiles Demonstrator (ACT UK) will support the transition from the manual sorting of clothes and textiles to highly-automated sorting and pre-processing,...

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