Plas'tri wins 2024 Refashion's Innovation Challenge 

Plas’tri specializes in developing innovative solutions for more efficient and energy-friendly sorting of plastics and textiles, based in Saint-Étienne in France.

Plas’tri’s mission is clear: to reveal the value of plastic and textile waste through precise identification. By implementing advanced spectrometry techniques combined with powerful data processing algorithms, they ensure the quality of recycled products and optimize recycling processes.

 

A WORD FROM THE CEO

"Today, with current technologies, we don't yet have the level of detail needed to truly understand the composition of materials."

Clara Spetebroodt, CEO

PROJECT'S OBJECTIVE

Development of a new method to identify the material composition of used, non-reusable black-colored textiles (CHF) and multilayer textiles.

TYPE OF CHF COVERED : Black-colored textiles and multilayer textiles

RECYCLING STAGE: Sorting by material identification

PROCESS: Hyperspectral imaging combined with a digital camera

 

Financial support from Refashion: 

87 810,19€

Project duration: 24 months

The project in 3 steps

  1. Method of modeling using reference textile-footwear samples

  2. Characterization of complex materials: multilayer textiles and black-colored items and model training

  3. Model testing on post-consumer textiles and footwear

 

Financial support from Refashion: 

87 810,19€

Project duration: 24 months

The project in 3 steps

  1. Method of modeling using reference textile-footwear samples

  2. Characterization of complex materials: multilayer textiles and black-colored items and model training

  3. Model testing on post-consumer textiles and footwear

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Refashion is the Textile industry's eco-organisation (clothing, household linen and footwear). Its role is to oversee the prevention and end-of-life management of these items for the companies which place them on the market.

Central to the industry's eco-system, Refashion is accompanying the transformation towards the circular economy whilst providing services to the various stakeholders: marketers, collection and sorting operators, local and public authorities, project developers, the general public.

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