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Advancing Europe’s garment recycling with AI-driven condition assessment

Advancing Europe’s garment recycling with AI-driven condition assessment

The TexMat Solution automatically sorts consumer garments for resale through digital product passport data and AI‑based imaging and data‑processing technology. TEXMAT will revolutionise the garment reuse collection and business profitability in Europe. It incentivises consumers to bring their garments to collection machines through an effortless process: there’s no longer a need for consumers to select the suitable resale channel for their used clothes based on its condition, outlook or brand. All garments can be brought to a single location, the TexMat solution. Once a product is sold, the proceeds are automatically credited to the consumer. TexMat solution can improve business profitability, as different types of second-hand retailers can receive products through the system that their customers want, for example, based on brand, product category, size or colour. The manual sorting for either resale or garment recycling by second hand marketers will be minimised with the introduction of the TexMat solution. TexMat represents the kind of systemic innovation Europe needs by making textile circulation easy for consumers and commercially viable for businesses. DPP provides the key …

The Download: Helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry

The Download: Helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry

An experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies after they’ve had  treatment for bowel or rectal cancer. Radiation and chemo can have pretty damaging side effects that mess up the uterus and ovaries. Surgeons are pioneering a potential solution: simply stitch those organs out of the way during cancer treatment. Once the treatment has finished, they can put the uterus—along with the ovaries and fallopian tubes—back into place. It seems to work! Last week, a team in Switzerland shared news that a baby boy had been born after his mother had the procedure. Baby Lucien was the fifth baby to be born after the surgery and the first in Europe, and since then at least three others have been born. Read the full story. —Jessica Hamzelou This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.  Bangladesh’s garment-making industry is getting greener Pollution from textile production—dyes, chemicals, and heavy metals—is common in the waters …