Publications

Discover the publications from the ECOSYSTEX community and its members.
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RegioGreenTex SME Advisory Service Strategy

This report aims to highlight the complementary activities of RegioGreenTex to design the “SME Advisory Services Strategy”. The various pilots incorporated within the RegioGreenTex initiative have been selected for their elevated degree of circularity, innovativeness, and sustainability, as well as for the significant influence they could generate, not only on the company's business strategy, but also for their scalability in the local, national and international ecosystems.

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HEREWEAR’s Guidelines (Whitepaper) for ‘Bio-based Circular Textile Manufacturing’, with Manufacturing Manual and Glossary

This white paper serves as a vital resource for stakeholders in the textile industry, offering a comprehensive roadmap towards establishing capacities for bio-based circular textile manufacturing.

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SUSTRACK’s review of approaches and identification of research gaps

This report presents the results of a review of existing knowledge for monitoring and evaluating the transition to circular biobased systems. More than 130 research items, including scientific articles and reports, were consulted to identify major gaps across indicators and approaches generally used to monitor and evaluate the bioeconomy across the three major policy-level analyses: micro-level (products/processes/companies), meso-level (city/regions) and macro-level (World, Europe or countries).

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RegioGreenTex Regional hub ecosystem inception plan 

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide more detailed information on the workplan of the Regional hub ecosystems to RegioGreenTex partners and the representatives of the EU I3 Programme. Additionally, it aims to inform potential stakeholders within the different hub ecosystems about strategy, roadmap and related initiatives. Moreover, this paper serves as an initial invitation to stakeholders such as companies, researchers, NGOs and policymakers to join and contribute to the development of these ecosystems. As such it also intends to directly support the investment plans of the SMEs within RegioGreenTex.

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Research Gaps and Needs for the Green Transition of the European Textile Ecosystem

In July 2023, as a results of two months of collaboration between the researchers, industry experts and other stakeholders involved in the project members, the ECOSYSTEX Community is publishing their first Input Paper identifying the most pressing and impactful research gaps and needs to be filled to enable the green transition of the European textile ecosystem.

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PROPLANET Deliverable D.7.2: Exhaustive market analysis towards circular approaches for enhanced safe and sustainable coatings supporting the planet

This Deliverable is linked to Task 7.1. “Market Analysis and Circular Business Planning” running throughout the PROPLANET project, under the work package related to the “Exploitation, Dissemination, Communication and Social Engagement”. Under this deliverable a comprehensive market analysis was conducted to gain insights into the primary market landscape, examine specific sectors, and analyse competitors, and assess the project's strengths and weaknesses.

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SUSTRACK’s report on literature and gaps and trade-offs

This report presents SUSTRACK results on the environmental, economic, social and cultural limitations of the linear, fossil-based economy, as well as barriers and potential improvements associated with transitioning to a circular bio-based economy (CBBE).

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SCIRT’s Lab-scale samples for (re-)spinning trials after (bio)chemical recycling of multi-material fibre/textile blends

TU Wien focuses on removing elastane from textiles containing this polymer. In order to perform tests on separate elastane from textiles, procurement of pure elastane was necessary. The supply of pure elastane in weaved or yarn form from project partners or external industrial partners was not feasible. Therefore, TU Wien produced pure elastane via enzymatic hydrolysis of a viscose/elastane textile.

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SCIRT’s Vision and roadmap towards a circular fashion system

This deliverable aims to provide an inspiring vision document on circular fashion and a transition roadmap on how this vision can be achieved, resulting from work performed in the project. This report serves as input to policy recommendations that will be further elaborated at a later stage in the project.

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HEREWEAR’s policy input brief, preliminary version

This deliverable presents the preliminary version of the policy input brief of the HEREWEAR project. The content contains the findings and lessons learned from HEREWEAR regarding how to make the transition from the current textile sector to a textile sector that fully embraces the circular concept, uses bio-based materials and relies on the latest digital tools for efficient small-scale and local manufacturing in the EU.

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SCIRT’s Outline F2F demos, including target values for yarns and multi-filaments consisting of recycled materials

This deliverable examines whether the six representative garment types defined for prototyping under WP3 are representative of the main technological, environmental and business challenges in the textiles system (i.e. fibre compositions, technical requirements like dismantling, use of chemicals, business models, waste treatment) and cover the key product segments in the apparel sector.

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