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The crisis of textile waste
January 27th, 2025
ID 199147581 © Hollyharryoz | Dreamstime.com December 12, 2024, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report titled “Textile Waste: Federal Entities Should Collaborate on Reduction and Recycling Efforts.” The report also offers practical solutions to address the problem, centering on a collaborative approach. Not that it will be easy, but it is, says the report, very important. Advanced Textiles Source has […]
Textile waste to wealth
January 13th, 2025
Using fiber waste to make new yarn for clothing production. Photo: AI generated. © Dzmitry Auramchik/ Dreamstime.com. According to the United Nations’ Environment Programme, cities globally are expected to produce 2.2 billion tons of waste each year by 2025. Given the economic, environmental and health impacts of waste, it is important for the textile industry to […]
Advances in Textile Recycling
November 11th, 2024
Eastman includes waste textiles in its feedstock for molecular recycling. Photo: Eastman. Advanced textile recycling, including chemical, enzymatic, and molecular technologies, is considered by many to be the path to true circularity, making waste into materials not once, but over and over. Globally, 73 percent of collected apparel textile waste, according to the Ellen Macarthur […]
Looking ahead: the big picture
January 29th, 2024
Trends in the textile industry are apparently not easy to pin down; market researchers who study trends as a business agree on some, but not all. The degree of detail researched impacts the outcome, of course, and even market niche investigations generate hefty reports. Given the extensive reach of textile materials and products in the […]
SMX develops textile recycling technology
October 16th, 2019
Security Matters (SMX), an Australian-listed Israeli technology solutions company, believes it can help keep some textiles and garments from being incinerated or placed in landfills. Sorting materials so they can be recycled is the fashion industry’s greatest hurdle when it comes to creating a circular economy, a recent Knitting Industry article reported. To address this issue, SMX has […]
WRAP to support textile recycling ideas
June 21st, 2019
UK-based campaign group WRAP has announced details of a new grant program to support projects that provide infrastructure and technologies with the potential to significantly increase recycling capacity for difficult-to-recycle plastic packaging or textile materials.According to information reported on sportstextiles.com, WRAP is looking for organizations that are creating new methods for recycling plastics or textiles […]
Transparency, systemic incentives to offset textile waste
February 7th, 2018
A recent report by Reverse Resources says that an average of 25 percent of resources used to manufacture fabrics and garments is wasted. The company is offering ideas about how to reduce that figure. In an article in Raw Materials, researchers don’t pin the inefficiency on factories or label it a lack of responsibility on […]
Recycling textiles is a gift to the Earth
January 3rd, 2017
According to the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART), more than 95 percent of all textiles can be recycled or reused in some way. While nearly half of what already is recycled is reused as apparel, the trade organization says, another 30 percent become wiping rags or polishing cloths used in commercial and industrial […]