Students of Industrial Design Engineering at Elisava (University School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona) together with Girbau Lab, the open innovation platform at Girbau have created Clint, a recyclable new material made from the textile waste left in the filters of dryers. Clint aims to be a new step of Girbau’s initiative towards a circular economy model in industrial laundry.
According to Girbau, the machines produced by the supplier based in Vic (Barcelona, Spain) wash around 25,000 tonnes of linen a day all over the world, and in Catalonia alone industrial laundries are estimated to generate 1,500 kg of waste a week.