Here you will find regularly updated news around the TextileMission project - project results, conference reports of our stakeholder events and other interesting information from the research area "Plastics in the Environment."
After more than three and a half years of intensive, interdisciplinary research, we are pleased to present the central results of our research activities as well as promising approaches for the reduction of textile microplastics in our final publication.
On 17 March 2021, after three years of intense research, the project partners presented the most important findings and results of their work. Learn more.
Our new video shows you the research content and approaches to reducing textile microplastics that the project partners are working on and the solutions they see as promising.
On 10 December 2019, the TextileMission partners held a joint policy event in Brussels with speakers from EU Comission, BMBF and industry associations.
On 7 November 2019, the TextileMission partners presented their research activities in Berlin and discussed first results with international experts.
The scientists from TU Dresden give the German TV channel ZDF exciting insights into their research on textile related microplastics.
NDR documentary with statements of our project partners from Hochschule Niederrhein.
Our event report summarizes the event's most important results.
Here you will regularly find information on stakeholder events within the framework of TextileMission as well as information on trade fairs, congresses and conferences with overlapping agendas.
"TextileMission" is part of the "Plastics in the Environment, Sources, Sinks, Solutions" funding line of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
As project partners, the following nine organisations from the sporting goods industry, the household appliance and detergent industries, research and environmental protection contribute their respective know-how to the TextileMission project.
Microplastic particles enter rivers, lakes and oceans from various sources and damage organisms in marine environments. They originate from abrasion of car tires, loosening color particles, decomposing packaging material, but also from household...