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José Luis Spontón
Researcher
Reconquista Experimental Research Station
In the primary cotton production sector specifically, with its diversity of actors across the Latin American territory, making a particular technology or productive technique widely adopted requires different "incentives" depending on whether the producers are family-scale or large-scale. In many cases, the absence of those incentives is precisely what limits the widespread adoption of many available technological advances.
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Eileen Mockus
Chief Operating Officer
Accelerating Circularity
A big part is data and transparency: recyclers often lack reliable, standardized material and attachment-data about trims (what they’re made of, coatings, adhesives), so the safest operational choice is removal. The other part is inertia and risk-aversion: sorting and recycling lines are tuned for throughput and predictable inputs; including trims creates contamination risk, downgrades output or causes downtime to handle foreign materials.
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