{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Leenders N"],"funding":["Dutch Research Council (NWO)"],"pagination":["738"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11779930"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["16(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["As a result of the current high throughput of the fast fashion collections and the concomitant decrease in product lifetime, we are facing enormous amounts of textile waste. Since textiles are often a blend of multiple fibers (predominantly cotton and polyester) and contain various different components, proper waste management and recycling are challenging. Here, we describe a high-yield process for the sequential chemical recycling of cotton and polyester from mixed waste textiles. The utilization of 43 wt% hydrochloric acid for the acid hydrolysis of polycotton (44/56 cotton/polyester, room temperature, 24 h) results in a 75% molar glucose yield from the cotton fraction, whereafter the hydrolysate solution is easily separated from the solid polyester residue. The reaction is scalable, as"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Polycotton waste textile recycling by sequential hydrolysis and glycolysis."],"pmcid":["PMC11779930"],"funding_grant_id":["KICH1.ED01.20.006"],"pubmed_authors":["Gruter GM","Puijk MJ","Bronkhorst RJA","van Klink GPM","Moerbeek RM","Leenders N","Bueno Moron J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Polycotton waste textile recycling by sequential hydrolysis and glycolysis.","description":"As a result of the current high throughput of the fast fashion collections and the concomitant decrease in product lifetime, we are facing enormous amounts of textile waste. Since textiles are often a blend of multiple fibers (predominantly cotton and polyester) and contain various different components, proper waste management and recycling are challenging. Here, we describe a high-yield process for the sequential chemical recycling of cotton and polyester from mixed waste textiles. The utilization of 43 wt% hydrochloric acid for the acid hydrolysis of polycotton (44/56 cotton/polyester, room temperature, 24 h) results in a 75% molar glucose yield from the cotton fraction, whereafter the hydrolysate solution is easily separated from the solid polyester residue. The reaction is scalable, as","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Jan","modification":"2025-04-22T10:29:59.774Z","creation":"2025-04-05T23:34:36.922Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11779930","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39880829"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-025-55935-6"]}}