Regenerative Technology: Processing Post-Consumer Denim Waste into a High-quality Fibre Feedstock for Chemical Recycling

再生技术：将消费后牛仔布废料加工成用于化学回收的高质量纤维原料

• 批准号: 10022877
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: E.L.V. DENIM LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10022877
• 关键词: Regenerative; Technology; Processing; Post; Consumer

Less than 1% of clothing is recycled into new clothing, with 73% headed to landfill or incineration and the remainder being repurposed into lower-value applications: insulation, mattress stuffing and industrial cleaning clothes (Ellen_MacArthur_Foundation_2017).The fashion industry needs to rapidly innovate ways to identify post-consumer waste textile materials that are not easily recycled. We simply cannot continue looking at our natural world for feedstocks; we need to view textile waste as a resource and close the loop on cotton production by recovering materials.Anna Foster is Founder and Creative Director of E.L.V. DENIM and a renowned fashion stylist. She began styling in her early twenties, worked with an acclaimed list of photographers, models, and celebrities and is currently Fashion Director-at-Large at Australian magazine RUSSH.E.L.V. Denim is a 100% up-cycled denim brand, with environmental sustainability & social responsibility at the heart of our company. We up-cycle old discarded denim into modern, sophisticated designs, using only 7L of water to produce vs 10,000L for a new pair (UN estimate). Launched 3 years ago, Anna Foster has built a brand that is internationally stocked, supported by the British Fashion Council and recognised as a key player in fashion's circular economy.E.L.V. DENIM works with Blackhorse Lane Atelier, a local East London atelier with a proven social sustainability policy. All production takes place within a 5-mile radius in East London, ensuring minimal carbon footprint and supporting local communities. We are now offering our customers the service to repair and recycle their existing E.L.V. DENIM jeans, the first step in a strategy to become fully circular, the final goal to create a new regenerative fibre out of post-consumer denim waste, closing the loop on one of the most popular items in every person's wardrobe.Anna's vision is to fully utilise every pair of post-consumer denim we come across during sourcing and best utilise our small amount of off-cuts. We will recycle undesirable denim waste in the UK into high-quality low-impact denim fibre, replacing virgin cotton fibres in the manufacturing process of new yarns and textiles. This will add value to a currently problematic waste stream.We will start this approach at fibre level, by chemically analysing an array of sorted denim fibre types and testing chemical processing methodologies. This will ultimately allow for a higher quality segmentation of feedstock, localising material-to-material recovery and building strong local textile and waste expertise and infrastructure in the UK.

不到1%的衣服被回收制成新衣服，73%的衣服被填埋或焚烧，其余的被重新利用到低价值的应用中：绝缘材料、床垫填充物和工业清洁服。时装业需要迅速创新方法，识别消费后不易回收的废弃纺织材料。我们不能继续从自然界中寻找原料；我们需要将纺织废料视为一种资源，并通过回收材料来实现棉花生产的闭环。Anna Foster是E.L.V. DENIM的创始人和创意总监，也是著名的时尚造型师。她20岁出头就开始从事造型工作，曾与众多知名摄影师、模特和名人合作，目前是澳大利亚杂志《rush . e.l.v》的时尚总监。丹宁是一个100%再生牛仔品牌，以环境可持续性和社会责任为公司的核心。我们将旧的废弃牛仔布升级为现代的、复杂的设计，只使用7L的水来生产，而一条新裤子则需要10,000L的水（联合国估计）。创立于3年前的Anna Foster品牌，在英国时装协会的支持下，在全球范围内销售，并被公认为时尚循环经济的重要参与者。DENIM与Blackhorse Lane Atelier合作，这是一家东伦敦当地的工作室，具有成熟的社会可持续性政策。所有生产都在东伦敦方圆5英里的范围内进行，以确保最小的碳足迹并支持当地社区。我们现在为客户提供维修和回收现有E.L.V. DENIM牛仔裤的服务，这是全面循环战略的第一步，最终目标是从消费后的牛仔废料中创造出一种新的再生纤维，结束每个人衣柜中最受欢迎的项目之一的循环。安娜的愿景是充分利用我们在采购过程中遇到的每一条消费后牛仔布，并充分利用我们少量的边角料。我们将回收英国不受欢迎的牛仔布废料，制成高质量的低影响牛仔布纤维，在新纱线和纺织品的制造过程中取代原始棉纤维。这将为目前存在问题的废物流增加价值。我们将从纤维层面开始，通过化学分析一系列分类的牛仔纤维类型并测试化学处理方法。这最终将允许更高质量的原料分割，本地化材料对材料的回收，并在英国建立强大的当地纺织和废物专业知识和基础设施。