While steps have been made in the right direction, it’s crucial for the future of the fashion industry to focus on sustainability and a circular economy of products. As we near global targets of net-zero and the reduction of physical waste, we’ll likely see more and more brands engage ...
GRS is the acronym for Global Recycled Standard. It is one of the most common certification standards for textiles made with recycled materials. The standard sets requirements for third-party certification of: Recycled Content:Products are verified to contain at least 20% of recycled material. Both...
The textile recycling industry is new to a lot of people, and we get lots of questions. What sorts of clothing, household textiles, and shoes can I donate? How do I donate? Where does the donated material go? How does it get there? How much of it gets used? If any of these or ...
Review Opportunities and Limitations in Recycling Fossil Polymers from Textiles Sabrina Bianchi 1, Flavia Bartoli 1, Cosimo Bruni 1, Cristina Fernandez-Avila 2, Laura Rodriguez-Turienzo 2 , Jorge Mellado-Carretero 2, Daniele Spinelli 3 and Maria-Beatrice Coltelli 1,4,* 1 SPIN-PET S.r.l., ...
Recyclable biomass-derived polyethylene-like materials as functional coatings for commercial fabrics: toward upcycling of waste textiles ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 10 (2022), pp. 17187-17197, 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c05080 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar [106] A.S. Arrington, T.E. Long Influence ...
processes are the regulars of the landfill who come to select the materials that caneasily be resold or remodeled by them: aluminum, copper, iron, textiles, wood and cardboard, even plastics and papers. It is also several dozen people who live, not without risk, on or near large landfills...
Crucially, in the current study, the alkylation reaction immediately follows the cracking step in a single reaction vessel, near room temperature (70 degrees C/158 degrees F). “Cracking just to break the bonds results in them forming another one in an uncontrolled way, and that’s a problem...
Heimtextil is an international trade show, or fair, for new textiles in Frankfurt, Germany. This year’ fair placed attention on making new products that came from reused materials.“We’ll see companies demonstrating how inorganic materials like nylon, plastic and metal can be reused,” Olaf ...
Plastic recycling rate in Europe is low, urging developments in recycling technology and strategies to increase circularity. Mechanical recycling (MR) has been the reference recycling technology for years, but in the near future chemical recycling (CR) options are expected to contribute to improve pla...
Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) are widely used as additives in a variety of materials such as polyvinylchloride (PVC) plastics, polyurethane foam (PUF), furniture, textiles, paints, electronics and building materials (Marklund et al., 2003). OPFRs are substitutes of legacy brominated flam...