Pilots

TRICK will exploit its information management system in 2 domains with high relevance for sustainability

Textile-Clothing

as main, with a first pilot in traditional manufacturing completed by a parallel pilot in technical workwear

Food

for replication

Each pilot provides challenges where a potential circular solution has a significant economic value. The cases are real production environments and they will supply key requirements for TRICK services and performance indicators for its evaluation. The pilots will demonstrate the expected impact of TRICK on the European transition to circular economy, encompassing the information needs for launching and exploiting new sustainable approaches, both for producers and for consumers.

TEXTILE PILOT

TEXTILE-CLOTHING

Background and economic value:

with a turnover of 178 billion € in 2018, 5 billion in investment and 1,66 million of employees, TC is one of the leading manufacturing sectors in Europe, and one of the most polluting too. It plays a a significant role in climate change with 1,7 million tons/year CO2 emissions, 10 % of substances of potential concern to human health, 87% of the workforce (manly women) below living wages. Permitted by lowered cost and fast fashion, a garment is worn an average of 3 times in its lifecycle, with €400 billion lost a year due to discarding clothes which can still be worn. The waste in fashion reaches 92 million tons per year, with 87% of clothes ending up in landfills. On the opposite, there is a change of attitude, due to growing awareness about ethical and environmental impacts:

“66% of consumers are ready to pay more for products or services from companies committed to sustainability”

Consumers and stakeholders need to overcome the opacity of the value-chain with reliable and secured information about products as regards production tracing, PEF and environmental footprint, recycling and circular practices, health protection, worker social conditions, anti-counterfeiting and raw material flows. TRICK TC pilot will fulfil this need covering all the main phases of circular production with a concrete implementation of circular flows in real business with end-of-waste as final goal.

Circular production phases covered by the pilot

Traditional textile & clothing

Recycling
Raw material sourcing
Yarn production
Fabric production
Retail
Second-hand market
End of life collection
Recycling of original equipment manufacturer

Technical workwear

Recycling
Raw material sourcing
Yarn production
Fabric production
Clothing production
Workwear use
Repair for reuse
End of life collection
Recycling of original equipment manufacturer

Challenges

TC with its fragmented and very complex value chain, formed by >90 SME with <10 average employees, highly internationalized and geographically distributed, has all the needed peculiarities to be a test-bed for the demonstration of innovative sustainable approaches.

FOOD PILOT

PRODUCT TRACEABILITY

Background and economic value:

In the Food sector, EC estimates that up to 10% of the 88 million tons of food waste generated annually in the EU are linked to date marking, with associated costs estimated at € 143 billion. The annual EU production of perishable products (fresh fruit and vegetables) amounts to 32 million tons, of which 39% becomes food waste, accounting 6% of total EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

TRICK contribute will be directed to decrease the perishable goods waste by means of precise solutions for the traceability of the supply chain and for the estimate of the products end of life. Moreover, TRICK will suggest alternative re-use of goods after shelf-life.

Food pilot will directly replicate 3 services of primary importance for end users: secured traceability and PCO, circular assessment, health protection assessment applied to the consumers’ needs. Moreover the pilot will simulate the other 3 standardized services of the project, while recycling will be assessed by the shelf-life simulation add-on for TRICK marketplace. Data related with the 3 main services (e.g. harvesting and conditions of transport), will be collected and added to the ones related with traceability and with the factors affecting shelf-life, to provide retail with a precise simulation of the period of time when a product can be offered to the consumers on shelf maintaining all the features needed for selling. On the basis of expected end of life, afterwards advanced agreement can be taken with industrial food producers to recycle fruit and vegetables in industrial food processes.

Circular production phases covered by the pilot

Food chain

Retail
Reuse
Shelf life simulation

Challenges

Tracing of product with secured data and clear connection with the lots of goods, replication and standardization of project services to demonstrate the universality of TRICK approach.

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Pilots

Textile-Clothing

Food

TEXTILE PILOT

TEXTILE-CLOTHING

Background and economic value:

Circular production phases covered by the pilot

FOOD PILOT

PRODUCT TRACEABILITY

Background and economic value:

Circular production phases covered by the pilot

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