The world's first large-scale plant for automatic textile sorting has started operation at SYSAV's facility in Malmo, the largest city in the Swedish county of Scania. A 30-metre-long machine has a sorting capacity of 24,000 tonnes of textiles per year and is reportedly expected to revolutionise Swedish textile recycling and create new markets for textile waste. The SYSAV waste-to-energy plant is owned by 14 local authorities. The sorting plant in Malmoe is owned and operated by SYSAV. The sorting facility was the result of SIPTex, a Swedish research project that tested and evaluated automated textile sorting by building and operating a pilot facility for 12 months.
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