A Review on Textile Recycling Practices and Challenges

Juanga-Labayen, Jeanger P.; Labayen, Ildefonso V.; Yuan, Qiuyan

doi:10.3390/textiles2010010

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“…In addition, cotton waste can be a perfect material for creating high-performance catalysts and removing pollutants from the environment due to its natural state and affordability (Fakhrhoseini et al, 2020;Shirvanimoghaddam et al, 2019). Finally, different reusing and recycling methods for managing textile waste can be employed, such as anaerobic digestion, fermentation, composting, and fibre regeneration (Juanga-Labayen et al, 2022).…”

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Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries

Abbate

Centobelli

Cerchione

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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Textile, apparel, and fashion (TAF) industries contribute significantly to global environmental pollution at every point of the supply chain. Clothing manufacturing and transportation produce a large volume of waste and high greenhouse gas emissions, often taking advantage of cheap labor in developing countries. As a result, stakeholders are becoming more aware of the effect of the textile, apparel, and fashion industries on the climate and human rights, thus pushing businesses to mitigate their environmental damage. This paper offers a systematic literature review of sustainability trends in the TAF industries in the last 20 years. Bibliometric tools are also used to support the content analysis of the papers. The findings reveal three primary research areas in the TAF context: consumers’ behaviour towards sustainable clothing, circular economy initiatives, and sustainability challenges across the whole supply chain. As a result, this study highlights literature gaps and provides future research suggestions for each identified research cluster. In addition, drivers and barriers to implementing corporate social responsibility and circular economy practices are identified. Consequently, this study will help researchers and academicians work in this area to identify unexplored sub-fields, which reflect some potential investigation areas for expanding scientific literature on the topic. Finally, this study supports practitioners and managers in exploring the main research themes addressed in the scientific field, providing knowledge to improve and align business models with current sustainability trends.

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Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries

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Centobelli

Cerchione

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Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Additionally, the abundance and low cost of post-consumer cotton waste make it more competitive than other cellulosic fiber 3 – 5 . The fact that more than 85% of cotton waste is landfilled or incinerated urges us to find new uses for this natural resource 6 , 7 .…”

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Nanocellulose reinforced lightweight composites produced from cotton waste via integrated nanofibrillation and compounding

Liang

Liu

Zhong

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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Cotton is a natural fiber containing more than 95% of cellulose. With worldwide cotton consumption continuously increasing, the amount of cotton waste generated is enormous. Most of the cotton waste ends up in landfill or incinerators, resulting in a huge waste of this excellent natural resource. In this project, cotton waste was recycled to produce polypropylene nanocomposites. Instead of using the traditional two-step nanofiber extraction and compounding technique, an integrated process was adopted to combine nanofibrillation and compounding into one step. Results showed that cotton fibers with a slight prefibrillation and hydrophobic surface modification were successfully fibrillated into tens to hundreds of nanometers in width during compounding. The nanofibers reinforced polypropylene composites exhibited significantly enhanced tensile and flexural strength and moduli. For instance, when 30% fibers from bleached white and indigo-dyed denim fabrics were introduced, the tensile moduli of the resultant composites reached 4.57 and 4.59 GPa, respectively, compared to 1.60 GPa, the modulus of neat PP. Meanwhile, denim fabrics had a remarkable reinforcing effect on the composites’ impact strength attributing to the hydrophobic indigo dyes that improved the interfacial bonding between cotton fibers and the matrix. The highest impact strength of denim reinforced composites was 4.96 kJ/m2 with 20% fiber loading; while the impact strength of neat polypropylene was 2.46 kJ/m2. The low water uptake of the composites further indicated the excellent adhesion at the filler/matrix interface. In general, a very promising processing technique to recycle cotton waste for high-value products was demonstrated.

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“…Seen from the point of view of clothing waste per inhabitant on an annual level, the clothing industry leaves behind a significant amount of waste due to the increased consumption of fashion textiles. Although this textile waste is a valuable resource because it is new, clean with retained physical and mechanical properties, does not require any treatment before recycling, and is almost 100% recyclable [6], most of this waste is thrown away. It ends up in landfills together with other municipal waste.…”

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“…Adding to this type of waste, there is also textile industrial waste, i.e., post-industrial waste (pre-consumer waste) that includes fiber, yarn, and fabric waste [8]. The EU textile industry generates approximately 16 million tons of waste annually, and above 70% of this waste is disposed of into landfills or is incinerated [6].…”

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Sustainable Thermal Insulation Derived from Recycled Textile Waste

Samardžioska¹,

Jovanoska²,

Grujoska³

2023

Adv Environ Eng Res

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The textile industry is one of the oldest industries and the third most important industry branch in Macedonia. It has had a steady increase in production over the years. Growing production line proportionally generates textile waste. Although it is terminologically categorized as waste, textile waste can be a valuable resource and is one of the textile industry’s main challenges. Textile waste, appropriately treated with the possibilities offered by the recycling process or used as a clean waste, can find multi-faced application in different construction areas. This paper covers research that examines the possibilities of applying textile waste in the field of thermal insulations in buildings. The focus is on developing thermal insulation solutions applied in sustainable and ecologic buildings. Applied thermal insulation has a primary impact on reducing electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions associated with indoor air conditioning. That would mean that buildings incorporating appropriate thermal insulation offer greater comfort, directly increasing the quality of life. This is an additional economic-environmental dimension. According to the experimental testing, the thermal conductivity coefficient of the textile waste is obtained at 0.039 W/m·K. Its value defines a thermal insulation material suitable for the purpose and has approximate values to the other materials usually used for thermal insulation in buildings. Implementing a product made of textile waste with appropriate performance would bring economic benefits to the industry and open new job opportunities.

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A Review on Textile Recycling Practices and Challenges

Cited by 155 publications

References 40 publications

Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries

Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries

Nanocellulose reinforced lightweight composites produced from cotton waste via integrated nanofibrillation and compounding

Sustainable Thermal Insulation Derived from Recycled Textile Waste

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