RFID for Transparency, Traceability and End-of-Life handling of Textiles - The Importance of Harmonized Legislation

C. Jönsson
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At present a lot of garments and home textiles are thrown away as soon as they are judged to be out of style or worn out. Only in Sweden over 200 tonnes of textiles end up as household waste every day. To achieve and strive for a circular economy, The European Commission has pinpointed textiles as one important focus area. As a consequence, it is important to significantly increase collection rates and textile material recycling. Development of new technologies are therefore required in terms of recycling processes at industrial scale, but in order to achieve this scaling, efficient and specific sorting processes are required. This sorting must be able to consider several parameters such as fiber content and composition, as well as possible presence of harmful chemicals, since these parameters have significant implications for subsequent processes. Information systems based on RFID technology, where digital information carriers bring the essential information to the end-of-life-handling of textiles is found to be a promising solution. By means of integrating RFID tags in garments and textiles, all relevant information needed for further handling at end-of-life can be made available. However, since July 2019, the RoHS directive includes category 11, a catch-all category. In category 11, passive RFID tags are covered, implying that garments with integrated passive RFID need to be CE-labelled. Apart from causing huge obstacles to reach circularity and transparency in the textile value chains, the legislation appears inconsistent to what the European Commission highlights as important for implementing the Circular Economy Package; which is the need for information systems, innovative tracing technologies and strategies for information sharing.
RFID对纺织品的透明度、可追溯性和报废处理——协调立法的重要性
目前,很多服装和家用纺织品一旦被判定过时或穿旧就被扔掉。仅在瑞典,每天就有超过200吨的纺织品成为家庭垃圾。为了实现和努力实现循环经济,欧盟委员会已将纺织品确定为一个重要的重点领域。因此,重要的是要显著提高回收率和纺织材料的回收利用。因此,就工业规模的回收过程而言,需要开发新技术,但为了实现这种规模,需要有效和具体的分类过程。这种分选必须能够考虑几个参数,如纤维含量和组成,以及可能存在的有害化学物质,因为这些参数对后续工艺有重大影响。基于RFID技术的信息系统被认为是一个很有前途的解决方案,其中数字信息载体将基本信息带到纺织品的生命周期结束处理中。通过将RFID标签集成到服装和纺织品中,可以获得在使用寿命结束时进一步处理所需的所有相关信息。然而,自2019年7月以来,RoHS指令包括第11类,这是一个包罗万象的类别。在第11类中,涵盖了被动RFID标签,这意味着集成了被动RFID的服装需要贴上ce标签。除了对纺织品价值链的循环和透明度造成巨大障碍外,该立法似乎与欧盟委员会强调的实施循环经济一揽子计划的重要性不一致;这就需要信息系统、创新的追踪技术和信息共享策略。
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