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Join Us at the Forefront of Textile Circularity: Conference Programme Now Live for Textiles Recycling Expo 2025

Brussels Expo, Belgium | 4–5 June 202

The Lifecycle of Textile Lay-Flat Hoses and WhiteCycle’s Circularity Strategy

WhiteCycle’s Strategic Bulletins Are Now Available!

Marking International Day of Zero Waste: Driving Change at Textiles Recycling Expo

Empowering Future Innovators 

Consumer Acceptance Survey for Products Containing rPET (Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate)

Participate in this initiative and complete this anonymous questionnaire to help us !

A great news for WhiteCycle project !

This November, IFTH successfully validated the spinning feasibility of rPET produced from CARBIOS' monomers

Circular Economy Multiplicator Event at Vitemeir Science Center in Sogn og Fjordane

The HVLteam participated in the Circular Economy Multiplicator Event at the VitemeirScience Center in Sogn og Fjordane.

WhiteCycle at the Green Deal, Industrial Ecology and Circular Economy in Clermont-Ferrand France

We will be present at the symposium Green Deal, Industrial Ecology and Circular Economy in Clermont-Ferrand France. Come meet us!

A presentation on WhiteCycle will take place during the ECOSYSTEX Insights Series #11

The ECOSYSTEX Insights Series #11 is an online event. It will be the eleventh public dissemination webinar of ECOSYSTEX

We will be present at the Advanced Recycling Conference in Cologne Germany. Come meet us!

The Advanced Recycling Conference, a premier gathering focused on the latest advancements in recycling technologies...

Whitecycle Project unveiled !

Highlights from the presentation and booth at the National Polymer Recycling Conference

Come meet us!

We will be present at the National Polymer Recycling Event in Clermont-Ferrand France.

WHITECYCLE’S FIRST RESULTS – June 2024

WhiteCycle aims to address carbon emissions, pollution fromlandfilling and incineration, and the dissemination of microplastics. Our go

WhiteCycle on TireTech 2024

The project presented on stage by Michelin

CARBIOS rallies players to promote textile circularity sector

CARBIOS a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to the life cycle of plastic and textiles

Green Deal, Circular Economy and Industrial Ecology

The "European Green Deal" is an initiative launched by the European Commission

Sabanci opened a technology center in Germany

This center is focused on sustainable and advanced material technologies

Event review : First WhiteCycle dissemination workshop

First workshop to disseminate the results of the European WhiteCycle project, led by Michelin

Carbios obtains building and operating permits world’s first PET biorecycling plant in Longlaville

In September, Carbios and Indorama Ventures signed the sales agreement for the land to be purchased by Carbios

WhiteCycle 1st Workshop

Take part in WiteCycle's 1st international workshop on 28 November in Clermont-Ferrand!

First ECOSYSTEX Conference - 19/20th of october, 2023 in Barcelona

WhiteCycle will be represented along with several other textile recycling projects.

Focus partner: IRIS TECHNOLOGY

IRIS Technology is Europe's leading engineering company in the manufacture and integration of turnkey photonics.

Focus partner: SYNERGIES TCL

Synergies TLC innovates alongside manufacturers, waste management companies, clothing brands and public institutions

Focus partners: MANDALS

Mandals is one of the world’s most recognized manufacturers of lay-flat hoses and looms.

WHITECYCLE DEVELOPS SYNERGIES WITH 17 PROJECTS ACROSS EUROPE IN ECOSYSTEX

22 R&I EU-funded member projects focusing on textile sustainability.

WHITECYCLE’S PRELIMINARY RESULTS - 2023

The WhiteCycle consortium’s close teamwork is yielding very promising results toward its goal of producing the world’s first tyres...

Launch of Nouvelles Fibres Textiles at Amplepuis: France's first industrial pilot for automated sorting and untwisting of end-of-life textiles.

The Tissages de Charlieu and Synergies TLC have joined forces to create Nouvelles Fibres Textiles.

Michelin presented WhiteCycle at GEPET&POLYESTER

The GEPET&POLYESTER took place on May 23-24th, 2023.

DITF sharing theirs objectives in the WhiteCycle project among other partners.

A consortium of 16 public and private sector organisations under the name 'WhiteCycle' has set itself the goal of establishing a compre

WhiteCycle was present on the Innovation Forum 4 Plastics

Sebastien Nouel (Michelin) and Benjamain Remy (Carbios) were at the forum 4 plastics to present the WhiteCycle project.

Refashion Scientific Morning - 29 March 2023

This event will be an opportunity to present and discuss the results of two major studies.

ICIS PET Value Chain Conference - March 7th-8th, 2023

ICIS PET Value Chain Conference will take place on the 7th to the 8th of March, 2023 in Vienne, Austria

International Automotive Recycling Congress 2023, June 21-23th, 2023

The International Automotive Recycling Congress 2023 will take place on the 21th to the 23th of June.

4th Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability - June 19th-21th, 2023

4th Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability will take place on the 19th to the 21th of June, 2023 in Greece.

5th Forum Plastic Recyclates - March 29-30, 2023

The 5th Praxisforum will take place from March 29 - 30, 2023 in Darmstadt, Germany

Sorting for Circularity Europe

An evaluation and commercial assessment of textile waste across Europe

European Commission: A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age

Communication from the European Commission

SYSTEMIQ, Synthesis report: Circularity of PET/polyester packaging and textiles in Europe

Exploring circularity pathways for PET/polyester...

Recycling of multilayer and composite plastics

Single-use consumption of plastics is incompatible with Europe’s transition to a circular economy.

Waste Management Europe - April 18-20, 2023

Waste Management Europe's prestigious annual summit welcomes hundreds of international professionals.

ISO: Rethinking the future of plastics

Plastic pollution is a key environmental challenge today, calling for a new global agreement and sustainable solutions.

Chemical recycling of PET on the verge of industrialization

An overview of these new chemical recycling opportunities for PET.

Recent Advances in Biological Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Wastes

Soong, Y.-H.V. et al., Bioengineering, 2022, 9, 98

A review on Textile Recycling Practices and Challenges

J.P. Juanda-Labayen et al., Textiles, 2022, 2, 174–188

EUROPEAN COMMISSION, EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles

Calls for proposals

The official Horizon Europe Work program 2023-2024 was published on December 7th, 2022.

Plastic Recycling World - November/December 2022

This article introduces different innovative PET recycling technologies.

RECYCLING MAGAZINE, EU’s circular material use rate decreased in 2021

According to Eurostat, in 2021, the EU’s circular material use rate reached 11.7%.

ECOMONDO 2023 - November 07th-10th

Ecomondo 2023 will be held in Rimini, Italy from 07th to 10th of November.

POLLUTEC 2023 - October 10th-13th

POLLUTEC will be held in Lyon, France from 10th to 13rd of October, 2023.

Plastics Recycling World Expo Europe 2023 - June, 15th

Plastics Recycling World Expo Europe 2023 will be held in Essen, Germany on Thursday 15th of June.

Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2023 PRSE - May 10th - 11th

The Plastics Recycling Show Europe will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 10th to 11th of May, 2023.

Tire Technology Expo 2023 - March 21st - 23rd

Tire technology expo 2023 will be held in Hannover, Germany from 21 to 23 March 2023

PETcore Europe Annual Conference 2023 - February 1st and 2nd

PETcore’s annual conference 2023 will be held in Brussels, Belgium on the 1st and 2nd of February, 2023

Carbios hosts world’s first PET Biorecycling Summit

The event took place at Clermont-Ferrand, France, on 9th December, 2022.

White Cycle project in 1 min

WhiteCycle is an innovative European project to process and recycle PET from complex waste.

POLLUTEC 2023 - 10th-13rd October

POLLUTEC 2023 awaits the 30th edition of Pollutec the leading environmental and waste management trade show.

Inditex

INDITEX is one of the largest fashion distribution companies in the world, with influence in more than 200 markets.

Michelin

MICHELIN is dedicated to enhancing its clients’ mobility, sustainably; designing and distributing the most suitable tires, (...)

We were there: Ecomondo | WhiteCycle

On November 8, the Whitecycle delegation was invited to the Cluster meeting: Horizon 2020 & Horizon Europe projects contributing (...)