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Spanish researchers want to make recycled polyester fibres from shoe waste

15/12/2016

The European Commission is providing 60% funding for a new project to come out of the footwear industry in La Rioja, Spain’s second-most important shoe producing region. Under a project called Life-Ecotex, the region’s footwear research and development institute, CTCR, will lead an initiative to recover polyester from post-consumer-use footwear...

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