Overview
CISUTAC aims to increase circularity and sustainability in textiles and clothing in Europe. The initiative addresses the challenge that less than 50% of used clothes are collected and only 1% are recycled into new clothes, with a focus on improving sorting for reuse and repair, and promoting efficient management of post-consumer textile waste.
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- 𝗔𝘀 𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗨𝗧𝗔𝗖 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁! Here's some of what we achieved together: 🧵 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: faster zipper repairs (45→10 minutes), automated firefighter-suit dismantling, AI-supported sorting with open datasets, and yarns with up to 80% recycled content. 🛍️ 𝗙𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀: research into
- Beyond the presentations and workshops, CISUTAC also had its own expo area at the ECOSYSTEX Conference in Antwerp! 🧵 Throughout the event, participants could stop by to see some of the projects results up close, and chat with the people behind them: 🛠️ Kringwinkel Antwerpen's jackets repaired with a new zipper, puller or slider, the step-by-step stages of a zipper repair using our semi-automated workstation, and a firefighter suit taken apart into its aramid outer layer, lining and leather components ♻️ rPET multifilament yarns by
- This week, a group of participants from the ECOSYSTEX conference had the opportunity to discover the CISUTAC pilot at Kringwinkel Antwerpen, and see firsthand how textile reuse, repair and recovery operate at scale. ♻️This behind-the-scenes tour combined a look at their operations, and a showcase of the CISUTAC repair and dismantling pilot. Some participants even got to try the zipper semi-automated workstation, proving that anyone without a sewing background can use it!
- Yesterday, we presented the final results of the CISUTAC project at the ECOSYSTEX Conference in Antwerp, Belgium! After four years of work across the full circularity spectrum, a few key messages stood out: 🌐 Data, standards and Digital Product Passports are key enablers for textile circularity 🛠️ Reuse and repair are already delivering results ♻️ Recycling still faces real technical and economic hurdles 🤝 No single solution will get us there. Collaboration is the way forward. We covered a lot of ground: how the textile landscape
- Day 2 of the ECOSYSTEX Conference opened with the TCLF Skills Observatory, presented by ECOSYSTEX and Skills4Circularity, a new space for monitoring skills needs and trends across the textile, clothing, leather and footwear sectors 🧭 Three parallel workshops followed with Circula-TEX, CISUTAC and Just Fashion EU Project, before participants stepped outside the venue: one group joined MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp for a fashion and sustainability walk through the city, the other visited Kringwinkel Antwerpen to see the CISUTAC
- Yesterday, we opened our final event at the ECOSYSTEX Conference in Antwerp, marking the close of a 4-year journey toward a more circular and sustainable textile and clothing sector in Europe. Our coordinator Lien Van der Schueren and Guy Buyle from Centexbel revisited where we started, what we set out to achieve, and how far we've come together. They walked the audience through some of the project's key outcome, from the zipper repair pilot to consumer awareness campaign and practices and DPP guide. Today, we're going deeper:
- Today, the fourth ECOSYSTEX Conference opened in Antwerp, co-organised with the University of Antwerp under this year's theme, Circular Textiles Beyond Recycling ♻️ The morning brought EU policy and funding perspectives straight from the source, with speakers from the European Research Executive Agency (REA), the European Commission's DG Environment and DG Research & Innovation, and the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU). It also marked the official launch of the Bioeconomy Innovation Strategy for the European
- Today, Textile ETP participated in the final CISUTAC General Assembly, which took place in Antwerp, ahead of the ECOSYSTEX Conference tomorrow. As this was the last time partners met, we decided to focus our discussions on what awaits once CISUTAC ends, especially how we can best exploits the results from the 3 pilots (repair, fibre-to-fibre recycling, and sorting for reuse/recycling), and how we can imagine their future replicability, and how we can continue collaboration with other EU-funded projects within the ECOSYSTEX
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