Resortecs provides a textile disassembly and recycling solution through its Smart Stitch™ and Smart Disassembly™ technologies, enabling garments to be easily unmade and recycled at end-of-life. This approach increases recycling efficiency by up to 90% and automates the removal of non-recyclable components, addressing the significant challenge of textile waste in the fashion industry.
Funding
$850K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
The fashion industry faces a significant challenge in textile waste management due to the difficulty in disassembling garments made from multiple materials. Traditional recycling methods struggle with separating different fabrics and removing non-recyclable components like zippers and buttons, leading to inefficient recycling processes and a large amount of textile waste ending up in landfills.
Solution
Resortecs offers a solution for textile disassembly and recycling through its Smart Stitch™ and Smart Disassembly™ technologies. Smart Stitch™ involves using heat-dissolvable stitching threads to assemble garments, enabling easy disassembly at the end of the garment's life. Smart Disassembly™ automates the removal of non-recyclable components from multi-material garments, increasing recycling efficiency and material purity. This approach facilitates high-quality textile-to-textile recycling on an industrial scale, reducing waste and lowering carbon emissions.
Target Audience
Resortecs targets brands and workwear companies seeking to improve the recyclability of their products, as well as textile sorters and recyclers looking to increase the efficiency and profitability of their recycling operations.
Features
- Smart Stitch™: A range of heat-dissolvable stitching threads (both bio-based and synthetic) that enable design-for-disassembly in textile products.
- Smart Disassembly™: Thermal disassembly systems that automatically remove trims blocking recycling, such as zippers and elastic bands.
- Automated trim removal: Eliminates manual intervention in the disassembly process, ensuring 100% automatic removal of non-recyclable components.
- Faster disassembly: The thermal process is five times faster than manual disassembly methods.
- High material recovery: Recovers up to 90% of a textile product for recycling, compared to an average of 50% with manual or mechanical disassembly.