Positive Apparel Thrift Store employees load a semi-trailer with bags of old clothes, which every three weeks makes deliveries from Nelson to a recycling facility in Vancouver. There is nowhere in the Kootenays to recycle textiles. Photo: Tyler Harper Every three weeks, a...
Whether recycled or not, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifies synthetic textiles, and recycled textiles may be eligible for Global Recycle Standard (GRS) certification. About the author: Sewport Support Team is the founder and CEO of Sewport - an online marketplace ...
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...
Minter: Unabashedly I’d say textiles if you’re concern is volume. The volume of textiles that are being consumed every year dwarfs the volume of electronics by magnitude. There’s no comparison. If you’re just interested with what’s going to be filling up landfills and incinerators by v...
Do keep in mind however that clothes that are stained, torn, or otherwise damaged won’t be sellable, so you’ll need to get rid of those items another way. (Clothing store H&M runs a great program where they accept and recycle unwanted textiles from any store or brand. Learn more here...
Old and expired medications Building waste and rubble 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: ...
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....
China and Morocco account for 91 percent of the world’s reserves, according to the International Fertilizer Development Center. Phosphorus is derived from phosphate rock and is used to produce fertilizers. By turning fossilized animals into fertilizer, chemists help to recycle the dead to feed the...
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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 ...