NTT will attend as a speaker at the 2nd World Recycling Convention, a three-day conference held in Rome at the end of October (28 – 30 October 2024).
The conference is an international event dedicated to the recycling and waste management industry. It provides an exceptional business platform for the recycling industry to display the latest recycling machines, equipment, technology, and solutions from across the globe to highly qualified trade visitors and decision-makers from the recycling and waste management sectors.
The conference brings together the entire cross-section of the value chain, aiming to promote collaboration and accelerate the transition towards a sustainable and truly circular recycling industry. Speakers will have a unique opportunity to present their recent developments to a wide and relevant audience including exchange and networking with stakeholders along the whole recycling industry experts. Meet more than 130 expert speakers sharing, the latest research, key industry insights, and new recycling innovations.
About NTT’s role in the REDOL project:
NTT has developed two technologies:
- The textile waste sorting system and
- A chemical recycling process of bi-component fabrics – with the aim to reuse and recycle textile wastes, creating sustainable alternatives to transform textile waste.
The textile waste sorting system is based on an NIR Hyperspectral Imaging camera, which allows selection by colour, chemical composition, and fabric structure. With this technology, fabrics or garments can be sorted according to specific criteria to be ready for the subsequent recycling processes.
NTT has also developed a technology for selective thermoplastic fibre separation from natural and synthetic bi-component fabrics. The technology is based on a closed-cycle solvent system, which permits the selective removal of fibres from bi-component textiles by dispersing them into a non-toxic solvent. The process has been validated for different types of bi-component textiles – such as polyamide, polyester, cotton, and wool as one of the main components –obtaining fabrics with a high degree of purity to be recycled through fibre-to-fibre recycling.
