The European Commission has published a new CORDIS Results Pack highlighting nine Horizon-funded research and innovation projects focused on making the textiles ecosystem more circular. The projects presented show how EU-funded projects are working to optimise resource use and minimise waste across the textile production and consumption cycle. It showcases research addressing challenges associated with the ecosystem’s resource use, greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, while highlighting the role of innovation in supporting a more sustainable and circular textile ecosystem.

The featured projects like - Glaukos, New Cotton, HEREWEAR, MY-FI, SCIRT, TRICK, T-REX, CISUTAC, and tExtended cover a range of approaches to improving textile circularity, including the development of bio-based fibres, chemical recycling of discarded textiles, alternative materials from waste streams, mycelium-based fabrics, improved textile sorting technologies, blockchain-enabled traceability, circular value chains for post-consumer textile waste, semi-industrial circularity pilots, and knowledge-based approaches to optimising textile flows. Together, the projects demonstrate the breadth of EU-funded research projects supporting circularity across the textile value chain.

Further details on the Results Pack are available on the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform.