Ghana-Germany tie-up tackles textile waste

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A joint research pilot aims to chemically recycle the African country’s growing textile waste into reusable raw materials

Street traders in Ghana selling used textiles
Ghana faces acute pressure from unsold textiles that may become waste. Image: Anton_Ivanov | Shutterstock

ACCRA – Researchers from Ghana and Germany, have advanced plans to establish a pilot facility in Ghana capable of chemically recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET) textile and plastic waste into reusable monomers.

The process can convert PET-containing textile and plastic waste – including coloured and multilayer composites previously considered unrecyclable – back into terephthalic acid and monoethylene glycol, the primary feedstocks for new PET production, with claimed conversion rates of up to 97%.

 

 

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