Methods and Actions for the Ecological Treatment of Post-consumer Textiles and their Innovative Recycling in Architecture

Alessandra Zanelli (Principal Investigator)

The general objective of the project is to study the basic operating conditions for the establishment of a supply chain consortium for the recycling and re-use of textile fractions, based on two main strategies: 1) the optimisation of already existing processes for the re-introduction of post-consumer textile waste into the relevant supply chains (sectorial circularity); 2) the creation of new processes for the recovery of post-consumer textile waste with the development of building products and furniture components with a high recycled content (intersectorial circularity). Thanks to the comparative environmental assessments of various collection-selection-recycling scenarios, it will also be possible to outline possible new competences for the roles of architects/engineers specialised in waste-management, capable of selecting the best raw-material-second as a new resource for the project in relation to a specific territory.

Contribution to SDGs: 11, 12