Within project 5, two recycling methods, physical recycling and chemical recycling, have been tested to recycle polymeric textile waste. In physical recycling, polymeric fiber waste were compounded and then re-spun into fiber by a melt spinning process. In chemical recycling, the polymeric fiber waste (polyester fiber waste) was chemically deploymerized into its monomers, and then the generated monomers were collected and purified. The purified monomers are suitable for virgin polymer synthesis.
