Biggest ever EU LIFE textile funding to the recycling system OnceMore®
In its largest funding ever, EU LIFE has granted 10 million EURO for a project to scale up OnceMore®, an innovative, first-of-a-kind industrial-scale system for recycling of blended textile waste. The project is a collaboration between Swedish Forest industry group Södra and Austrian company Lenzing.The EU-financed “EU LIFE 2022 Circular Economy and Quality of Life” grant is for the joint project: LIFE TREATS (Textile Recycling in Europe AT Scale). In this project Södra and Lenzing combine their decades of experience, knowledge and technology to further develop the unique OnceMore® process.