Establishing the U.K. Supply Chain for Circular Cellulose; Turning Commercial Textile Waste into Viable Packaging.

建立英国循环纤维素供应链；

• 批准号: 10046125
• 金额: $ 6.1万
• 依托单位: FIBRE LAB COLLECTIVE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for 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=10046125
• 关键词: Establishing; U.K.; Supply; Chain; Circular

The U.K. produces over 800,000 tons of pre-consumer and commercial textile waste every year, with the vast majority of it ending up in landfill or incinerator. We help businesses capitalise on this waste stream by turning it into a valuable raw material -- fibre. We do this through the use of a custom-built, small-scale shredding machine that is located locally in our east London studio.We aim to develop a localised supply chain for the remanufacturing of commercial and pre-consumer textile waste, with each stage of the process taking place entirely within the U.K. We will recycle cellulose based textile waste (I.e., cotton) into a fibre-based alternative to papers and packaging and will recirculate the products within the same businesses that initially produced the waste stream. For example, a garment manufacture can have its pre-consumer textile waste recycled into labelling for use on finished garments.What makes our project innovate is that the entire supply chain -- from waste collection, to fibre, to remanufacturing will all take place exclusively within the U.K. Therefore, establishing a new, localised supply chain and bringing recycled, fibre-based packaging to market. Paper-like materials made from textile waste has been proven, however, it does not currently exist within a localised supply chain, as we are proposing, or within the B2B sector. Our innovation is different to current offerings because we are developing fibre-based products and materials that can be of valuable use to the same businesses who are producing the waste stream.Our key objectives for this project include reducing environmental impact by diverting the amount of commercial textile waste sent to landfill and incinerator; establishing a localised circular economy through the creation of new products and materials; and creating new revenue streams to scale our business's impact and ultimately achieve our goal of eliminating pre-consumer and commercial textile waste from reaching landfill.

英国每年产生超过80万吨的消费前和商业纺织品废物，其中绝大多数最终进入垃圾填埋场或焚化炉。我们帮助企业利用这一废物流，将其转化为宝贵的原材料-纤维。我们在东伦敦的工作室里使用了一台定制的小型粉碎机。我们的目标是为商业和消费前纺织品废料的再制造开发一条本地化的供应链，整个过程的每个阶段都完全在英国境内进行。我们将回收纤维素基纺织废料（即，棉花）转化为一种纤维替代品，以取代纸张和包装，并将在最初产生废物流的同一企业内对产品进行再循环。例如，一家服装制造商可以将其消费前的纺织废料回收到标签中，用于成品服装。我们的项目创新之处在于，整个供应链--从废物收集到纤维，再到再制造，都将完全在英国进行。因此，建立一个新的本地化供应链，并将回收的纤维包装推向市场。由纺织废料制成的纸类材料已被证明，然而，它目前并不存在于本地化的供应链中，正如我们所建议的那样，也不存在于B2B行业中。我们的创新与目前的产品不同，因为我们正在开发纤维基产品和材料，这些产品和材料可以为产生废物流的企业提供有价值的用途。我们这个项目的主要目标包括：通过将大量商业纺织品废物转移到垃圾填埋场和焚烧炉来减少对环境的影响;通过创造新产品和材料来建立本地循环经济;并创造新的收入来源，以扩大我们的业务影响，并最终实现我们的目标，即消除消费前和商业纺织品废物进入垃圾填埋场。