Upcycling Mixed Textile Waste into Clean Materials for the Next Use Cycle

PESCO-UP's Sustainable Solution

PESCO-UP develops sustainable, economically viable processes for upcycling mixed polyester/cotton (PES/CO) textile waste into high-quality cotton and polyester products.

By 2025, textile waste collection will be mandatory in EU member states, and PESCO-UP aims to lead the charge in transforming this societal challenge into a business opportunity.

Addressing Key Challenges in Textile Recycling

Bridging Information Gaps

PESCO-UP tackles the industry's information exchange deficit by developing a marketplace based on the Digital Product Passport, facilitating communication among stakeholders to share technological advancements and promote the benefits of textile recycling.

Establishing Systematic Approaches

Focusing on classification and systemisation, PESCO-UP aims to create industry-wide standards for recycling technologies and logical routes for cotton and polyester textile fibres, advancing beyond current origin-based classifications to incorporate chemical structures, physical properties, and textile finishing attributes.

Ensuring Social and Technological Harmony

Recognising the importance of balancing technological innovation with social well-being, PESCO-UP endeavours to prevent negative social impacts, ensuring that new technologies enhance manufacturing job appeal and contribute to a skilled and sustainable workforce.

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Innovative Recycling of Polycotton Blended Textiles
Innovative Recycling of Polycotton Blended Textiles

Polycotton, a mix of polyester and cotton, poses a significant recycling challenge due to the difficulty in separating the fibres for reuse, especially back into textile fibres. The PESCO-UP project wanted to tackle this issue. PESCO-UP partner Nordic Bioproducts Group’s technology facilitates the separation of cellulose and synthetic materials from mixed polycotton textile waste and modifies the cellulose for use as a valuable raw material in the production of new textiles.

PESCO-UP’s Latest News

The PESCO-UP project coordinator, @vttfinland (Technical Research Centre of Finland), is making significant strides in sustainability by expanding its product portfolio to include laboratory scale regenerated cellulose films. These innovative films a
Last week, at the #ECOSYSTEXConference in Milan, our project partner Traci Kinden from Texroad presented the latest developments from PESCO-UP. Traci updated the participants on the latest proposed minimum data requirements for recycling, focusing o
This week in Dornbirn-GFC 2024, Heli Kangas from @valmetglobal delivered an interesting presentation on the challenges, solutions and opportunities linked with piloting and scaling up of sustainable and circular textile fibre processing 🧵 We were e
In May 2024, @mitwilltextiles showcased their Digital Textile Print Microfactory at Drupa, the world’s largest printing equipment exhibition, held in Düsseldorf, Germany ✨ They demonstrated how their microfactory, located in Sausheim, Fran
A while ago, the Institute of Energy Systems and Environment at Riga Technical University presented PESCO-UP at the CONECT2024 event in Lithuania. During their talk on circularity in the bioeconomy, they highlighted PESCO-UP’s goals to create n
PESCO-UP is eager to announce that it has joined the ECOSYSTEX community! We look forward to collaborating with almost 40 other project members dedicated to advancing textile sustainability and circularity ♻️ 🤝 Working together, we aim to foster in