technology

Automated textile sorting

Hyperspectral and near-infrared cameras with machine learning that classify post-consumer garments by fiber composition at industrial throughput, enabling clean fiber-to-fiber recycling (Tomra, Refiberd).

Where it's used

Circular fashion: textile collection & sorting
Collection, automated sorting and fiber-to-fiber recycling of post-consumer textile waste — the infrastructure layer turning Europe's 12+ million tonnes of annual clothing waste back into new fibers under the EU Circular Textiles strategy, led by Circulose, Infinna and automated sorters, alongside honest commercial scale-up retrenchments.
fibers-textiles 6 min