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NIRI is at the Forefront of Sustainable Innovation

The Global Challenge

Sustainability is a global topic influencing and changing consumer behaviours and perceptions towards products, brands and industries worldwide.

With the global production of plastics expected to double to about 640 million tonnes in the next 20 years, the negative environmental impacts and regulatory changes on the horizon mean full life-cycle thinking and innovation across the value chain is needed.

Prof. Stephen Russell , Group Technical Director

“Designing nonwoven products cognisant of their most likely end-of-life disposal route is now as vital as ensuring their performance in use”

New Material Innovation and Disposal
and Recycling Infrastructural Changes
are Required

Plastics play a crucial role in meeting the performance demands, safety and affordability of countless textile and nonwoven products used by society, but in general current methods of use and disposal are increasingly unsustainable, falling a long way short of what is needed to achieve aspirations of a zero-waste economy.

How We Help Companies Address the Sustainability Challenge and Grow Their Business

Improve new material process compatibility

Improve products recyclability

Improve products biodegradability & compostability

Improve products flushability & ocean degradability

Prototype & validate new sustainable products

Identify new market opportunities

Advise on new legislation

Provide Intelligence studies & bespoke training packages

Case Study

Decarbonising the fashion industry: meltspinning trials at NIRI and their potential for the wider nonwoven industry.

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