Nordic countries’ first large-scale end-of-life textile refinement plant to open in Paimio in 2021
The Nordic countries’ first industrial end-of-life textile refinement plant will open in Paimio in 2021. Rester Oy, which is developing the plant in Paimio, recycles companies' end-of-life textiles, and Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy (LSJH), which will hire a production area at the same facility, processes households' end-of-life textiles. The plant will process 12,000 tonnes of end-of-life textiles every year, which represents about 10% of Finland’s textile waste.The textile industry’s end-of-life textile problem is intolerable. Natural resources are increasingly used to manufacture products,