Publications

Discover the publications from the ECOSYSTEX community and its members.
Videos are available on ECOSYSTEX’s YouTube channel.

RegioGreenTex: Textile Circularity Guide – for a circular textile future

As part of the RegioGreenTex project, the Textile Circularity Guide outlines how textile waste can be turned into resources through circular business models, digital tools, and collaboration. It provides practical strategies, business development tools, digital solutions, and showcases successful European collaborations.

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AEQUALIS4TCLF project: D3.5 EU TCLF Skills Strategy

The EU TCLF Skills Strategy sets a shared direction for developing the skills that the sector needs to thrive in the green and digital transitions. It identifies key gaps, proposes coordinated actions for industry and education, and aims to ensure that companies can access the talent they require while workers benefit from new opportunities.

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RegioGreenTex's Italian GreenTex Hub: Boosting Circularity in Textile Sector Services and Opportunities from Italian Textile Ecosystems

This deliverable is a practical guide to driving circular transformation across the textile value chain, providing tools and frameworks for companies, associations, and policymakers to scale sustainable practices effectively.

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RegioGreenTex: The Circular Garment

Read more and watch the documentary to see how RegioGreenTex created ‘The Circular Garment’, a durable, unisex piece made from recycled fibers using innovative, circular textile techniques, developed through collaboration across 12+ SMEs and research centers in 8 European regions.

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Skills & education Textile ETP Skills & education Textile ETP

RegioGreenTex Training Packages

In order to support professionals in their transition to a more sustainable and circular textile sector, training packages were developed by organizing and evaluating existing digital training resources. Several key categories for training have been identified, including value chains, sustainable design, production, consumer behavior, end-of-life options and recycling. These RGT Training packages contribute to a smoother transition towards more sustainable practices across the industry. 

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RegioGreenTex Infrastructure Database

To accelerate the green transition in the textile sector, RegioGreenTex is mapping accessible R&D infrastructure across Europe, from testing laboratories and pilot lines to specialized machinery and expert support. This database helps SMEs identify the right expertise and equipment before making major investments themselves.

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RegioGreenTex: Eco-Design Strategies

RegioGreenTex developed this report to promote open dialogue in building a sustainable textile supply chain. Ecodesign thrives through collaboration between designers, producers, distributors, and those involved in recovery, repair, and reuse. This guide is the result of a joint effort between Next Technology Tecnotessile and the Service Design Lab at the University of Florence.

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Waste2BioComp’s report on benchmarking and technology watch

This report represents the final version of the Report on benchmarking and technology watch. It describes W2BC strategic benchmark and technology watch. Benchmarking strategic tool assists in the achievement of excellence, enabling improvement by borrowing and adapting the successful ideas and practices of organizations while avoiding unproven or problematic strategies.

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All Textile ETP All Textile ETP

Overview of standardisation Committees, published and under development standards, and gap analysis for renewable materials/ textiles

ECOSYSTEX Technical Working Group 4 (Renewable Materials & Standards) created a document providing an inventory of the standards related with renewable, bio-based and recycled materials, as well as a gap analysis indicating future needs for standards development, and a non-exhaustive overview over the existing private labels and certification schemes.

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Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP

EU LIFE TREATS’s “Enabling Circularity”: a designer's guide to fiber recyclability

As part of the EU LIFE TREATS project, Lenzing Group and Södra have created a guide for designers and brands to enable circularity in textiles. The purpose of "Enabling Circularity - A designer's guide to fiber recyclability" is to share their experience of textile recycling, as well as its opportunities and limitations. Södra and Lenzing have a history of working together for over 10 years, developing textile pulp, and processes of textile recycling

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All, Circular economy & textile recycling Textile ETP All, Circular economy & textile recycling Textile ETP

CISUTAC’s decision support tool for post-consumer textiles on reuse and repair

The work conducted led to two main outcomes: the creation of a unique dataset comprising 30,000 PCT garments , and the development of an AI model. The dataset includes images and annotations for each garment, capturing the complexities introduced by wear, tear, and alterations during the user phase. Unlike existing datasets that focus on pre-consumer textiles, this collection provides a more realistic foundation for developing digital sorting solutions.

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All, Circular economy & textile recycling Textile ETP All, Circular economy & textile recycling Textile ETP

CISUTAC’s comprehensive overview of circular textile business models

The report analyses existing textile repair, reuse and recycling systems in the EU and the trends that influence their operation. Based on these findings, the research explores the reasons behind the difficulties observed and proposes solutions to overcome them. The report’s ultimate objective, aligned with the CISUTAC project’s goal, is to understand how to create an integrated circular textile value chain.

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Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP Circular economy & textile recycling, All Textile ETP

Redesigning Value Chains with tExtended

This report designs a future textile ecosystem starting by understating the current textile value chains and their challenges. Through the implementation of circular economy principles, knows as R-strategies, the report redesign them to enable sustainable production, use and reuse of textiles, as well as sustainable end of life options and recycling.

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