The Sysav Group – Sweden-based recycling specialist – has launched an automated industrial textile sorting plant that’s claimed to be the world’s first such plant for sorting post-consumer textiles.
The annual sorting capacity of the plant is 24,000 tonnes of textiles and thus it aims to revolutionise textile recycling industry of Sweden and create new market opportunities for textile waste.
The recycling machine is 30 metres long and is located at Malmö facility of Sysav.
The plant has been set up as part of the SIPTEX (Swedish Innovation Platform for Textile Sorting) research project.
The project is headed by the IVL Swedish Environmental Institute wherein a huge consortium will be working with it that consists of official authorities, research institutes and players from textile value chain.
It’s worth noting here that an average Swedish scraps 8 kg of textile every year, which is a massive weight of around 200 tonnes of waste textile a day. Needless to say, this huge wastage impacts climate adversely.
“The new SIPTEX facility will now scale up textile recycling processes and accelerate our efforts in this direction. It is a sustainable investment, both for Sysav and for the environment,” commented Peter Engström, CEO, The Sysav Group.
