Innovate UK Launches A £4m Competition To Develop Closed-Loop Recycling In The Textile And Fashion Industries
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4 million for a demonstration of innovative technologies, services and processes for the UK’s Fashion and Textile sector.
Competition opens: Monday 14 November 2022
Competition closes: Wednesday 11 January 2023 11:00am
The aim of this competition is to fund a research and development activity demonstrator.
This will demonstrate new technologies, services, processes and business models capable of addressing the recycling and sorting challenges, as part of the UK’s fashion and textile sector and their direct supply chains.
Your proposal must be for a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, demonstration project.
Your project must support a demonstration of innovation at an industrially relevant scale, which will:
increase the proportion of post-consumer fashion and textiles retained in a closed loop system
increase the market value of processed post-consumer fashion and textiles
reduce the proportion of post-consumer fashion and textiles which is sent to landfill, destroyed or exported
develop and disseminate best practices in technologies, services, processes and business models to support wider industry and policy makers
Description
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to invest up to £4 million in an innovation project.
This will be to develop and demonstrate closed-loop recycling for the fashion and textile sector at scale.
This is the initial activity of a £15 million UKRI Circular Fashion Programme.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.
