BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France—A consortium of 18 European organizations, including Michelin, have launched a major initiative to process hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, including composite industrial waste and multilayer clothes.
Coordinated by Michelin, the WhiteCycle project launched July 1 and aims to develop a circular economy to convert "complex waste containing textile made of plastic into products with high added value."
By 2030, the $10 million project's ambition is to develop capacity to recycle more than 2 million metric tons of PET, the third most widely used plastic in the world, Michelin said in a July 5 news release.
The initiative aims to chemically process composite industrial waste containing textiles and other components from tires, hoses and multilayer clothes at the end of the product life cycle.