Since this process requires a feed of one piece at a time, the supply of the textiles to the system must also be piece by piece. This was previously done manually by an operator that takes the items from a pile and puts them piece by piece on a conveyor belt, a substantially repetitive and physically challenging task when attempting to keep a constant pace. This operation was therefore replaced by an automated feed-in system with robot arms, that allows to feed a constant flow of textiles to the Fibersort scanner and keep productivity at 1.5 sec/ piece of clothing (with 2 robot arms in place). The previous process of manual sorting to separate rewearables (second-hand market) and non-rewearables is kept unchanged and therefore, the negative impact in jobs is significantly low. It could even foster creation of new jobs.