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New solution for polycotton recycling

07/02/2025

Dutch chemicals company Avantium has announced having patented a method of recycling polycotton waste. The technology was developed with the University of Amsterdam’s Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group, headed by Gert-Jan Gruter, Avantium’s chief technology officer. It is presented in “Polycotton waste textile recycling by sequential...

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