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 …

