At textile mining.eco we are developing the next generation of prototype machines for the sorting of used textiles. We hope to establish a non profit organisation to drive technology to make to most impact in the mining of resources from urban waste. We hope to get textiles out of it for reuse and recycling. To have the machines to do the heavy lifting, providing the humans operating them with more meaningfull work.

Behind this new brand textile mining.eco is at the moment just me, Tom Koopen. I am a very experienced engineer in the field of computer vision, so the detection for sorting. Been working in the field for more than 25 years. In the last five year I have been working more and more in the sorting for recycling. Both in plastics and metals. As a field that make the world a little brighter, I decided to try to help with the sorting of textiles. This field is still underdeveloped in automation, but the world really needs more circularity in textiles. Without steps in automation it will not have the impact the world needs.

For the future I hope to establish a non-profit organisation that develops machines for the sorting of textiles. Other companies might prodcue these in license, thus creating money for new innovations. But the innovation needs to be more than a report to have impact. Of course partners are needed, no one can have impact that matters alone. Please reach out if you are interested.

tom at textilemining.eco