Avantium Finds Important Solution for Polycotton Textile Waste Recycling – Avantium

Avantium is a frontrunner in developing innovative technologies for producing chemicals and materials from sustainable carbon feedstocks, like plant-derived carbon or CO₂. One such technology, Dawn Technology, converts non-food plant-based feedstock into glucose and lignin, proven in its pilot plant in Delfzijl (the Netherlands). This glucose can be used in chemical and fermentation processes for diverse products such as monomers for bio-based plastics.

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The trials at Avantium’s Dawn pilot plant have shown high glucose yields from polycotton waste, indicating scalability and cost-effectiveness. This method is therefore the first viable process to effectively recycle both polyester and cotton fractions in high yields. With global textile production expected to reach 149 million tons by 2030 and a recycling rate of less than 1%, Avantium’s technology offers a sustainable solution for a circular, low-carbon textile industry and aligns with new regulations that make textile producers responsible for waste management.

Avantium supported this groundbreaking project by hosting PhD students from the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry research group of the University of Amsterdam in its laboratories and its Dawn pilot plant in Delfzijl. The first author of the paper, PhD student Nienke Leenders, works on secondment at Avantium.

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