{"id":140147,"date":"2025-05-22T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/dutch-startup-aims-to-recycle-300-million-pieces-of-polyester-clothing-a-year\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:55:18","slug":"dutch-startup-aims-to-recycle-300-million-pieces-of-polyester-clothing-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/yleinen\/dutch-startup-aims-to-recycle-300-million-pieces-of-polyester-clothing-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch startup aims to recycle 300 million pieces of polyester clothing a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140147\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The race to commercialize apparel recycling is heating up. On May 20, Reju, a startup within a Dutch engineering and fossil fuel company, announced plans to build a polyester recycling plant in the Netherlands. Its projected annual output: 300 million articles of clothing. Since its launch 18 months ago, Reju has opened a \u201cRegeneration Hub Zero\u201d demonstration plant in Frankfurt, Germany, which is expected to officially come online this year. The company has also inked partnerships with textile collectors and sorters and spoken with more than 100 brands and retailers to drum up interest for its Reju Polyester product, according to CEO Patrik Frisk.<\/p>\n<p>The global popularity of polyester, brewed from the fossil fuels that have hastened the climate crisis, has skyrocketed in recent decades, featuring in two-thirds of new clothing. The world churns out 33 million metric tons of plastic-based fibers each year. Only 3 percent gets recycled, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The waste is a mounting problem for the fashion brands and retailers that are gradually being forced to deal with their materials after end of use, thanks to extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations in the European Union and California.<\/p>\n<p>Reju breaks down polyester molecules into a monomer, before building it back up again. It uses IBM\u2019s VolCat technology, co-developed with Under Armour while Frisk was its CEO. In 2019, IBM shared with Trellis that, just as VolCat \u2014 short for volatile catalyst \u2014 could handle polyester bottles coated with milk or other gunk, it can manage the dyes and pigments on polyester clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/trellis.net\/article\/dutch-startup-aims-to-recycle-300-million-pieces-of-polyester-clothing-a-year\/\">Trellis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/6-706\/\">Dutch startup aims to recycle 300 million pieces of polyester clothing a year<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[575,18873,764,18874,655],"class_list":["post-140147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-polyester-clothing","tag-recycling","tag-reju","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}