Wool products are surprisingly easy to recycle. The GRS oversees the recycling of dozens of both organic and artificial textile products, and this organization provides cashmere producers with another opportunity to get their products recognized as eco-friendly. About the author: Sewport Support Team...
Most textiles that feature complex, woven patterns are jacquard. While there are a few different subtypes of this fabric, each type of jacquard is used for similar purposes. In contemporary times, jacquard is most commonly used to make drapes and curtains, but it’s also relatively common to ...
We produce so much of it; why not recycle it in the form of architecture or bioplastics? What about the whole new world that comes with 3D printing? The American Chemistry Council has a great overview of plastics as a material, as well as a rundown of their major uses in architecture,...
where adolescents and their small sisters and brothers see the dump site as a playground and a source of materials to sell for pocket money; where informal entrepreneurs who risk their health and safety to recycle are persecuted instead of praised, criminalized instead ...
(Clothing store H&M runs a great program where they accept and recycle unwanted textiles from any store or brand. Learn more here.) Dress for Success Dress for Success is a global charity that provides professional attire to women in need. It’s a fantastic place to donate all of your ...
Consumers tell pollsters they want to buy recycle and be sustainable but purchasing behavior betrays that. What will take consumers to do what they say will do? Minter: I thought about this a lot and thought I’d have to come up with an answer for the book and I sort of just gave th...
I wrote some time ago about the adoption of the How2Recycle label and how that is changing the nature of package end-of-life. When the package tells you how and where to dispose of it, you take out some unknowns and prevent the contamination of recycling streams caused by "wishcycled"...
Reusable textiles Discarded electrical and electronic appliances Sort garbage at home in Belgium Typically in a Belgium family, you would have such a setup to make sure your waste is properly sorted: For waste that cannot be recycled, Ikea provides bins that you can install below the sink so ...
There is also work to be done on improving and expanding textiles recycling. Undoubtedly, used textiles go to landfill in part because there are relatively few systems that collect, recycle and reuse materials. Such recycling requires the manual separation of fibres, as well as buttons and zips....
e-textiles (so-called intelligent clothing) with embedded electronic capabilities, including the ability to change colors and patterns (and even display advertisements!) that reflect our moods. Such textiles will be able to adjust their thermal properties to the ambient conditions and, let’s hope,...