Utilization of cotton waste for regenerated cellulose fibres: Influence of degree of polymerization on mechanical properties

A United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals perspective for sustainable textile and apparel supply chain management

“… Zamani et al (2015) study the effect of textile waste recycling on carbon footprints in Sweden and find that incineration has the largest potential for producing the carbon footprints, while compared with incineration, textile recycling can reduce the carbon footprints and energy usage. De Silva and Byrne (2017) examine the recycling of cotton textiles for regenerated cellulose fibres and find that cotton waste can provide better mechanical properties for regenerated cellulose fibres, than other materials. Based on the above findings, Table 4.7 shows how “reverse activities” literature can generate insights on sustainable practices based on 3BL.…”

Cellulose Fibers for High-Performance Textiles Functionalized with Incorporated Gold and Silver Nanoparticles

“…When recycled, these two types of cotton waste require different processing conditions. Especially pre-consumer cotton demands extensive pretreatments to reach a target viscosity between 400-500 ml/g to be used in dry-jet wet spinning (Silva & Byrne 2017). The adjustment of these properties can be attained through various treatments employing electron irradiation, ozone, peroxides, acids, and enzymes (Silva & Byrne 2017;Asaadi et al 2016;Björquist et al 2017;Haule, Carr & Rigout 2016;Ma et al 2016).…”

“…Especially pre-consumer cotton demands extensive pretreatments to reach a target viscosity between 400-500 ml/g to be used in dry-jet wet spinning (Silva & Byrne 2017). The adjustment of these properties can be attained through various treatments employing electron irradiation, ozone, peroxides, acids, and enzymes (Silva & Byrne 2017;Asaadi et al 2016;Björquist et al 2017;Haule, Carr & Rigout 2016;Ma et al 2016). In contrast, the properties of post-consumer cotton are more scattered and largely dependent on wearing time and washing conditions, which can decrease its viscosity to a range already suitable for a spinning process (Wedin et al 2018).…”

Modeling the Stiffness of Coupled and Uncoupled Recycled Cotton Fibers Reinforced Polypropylene Composites

“…In this sense, cotton strands have been used as polyolefin reinforcement successfully [16,17,18]. While some of the studies have used raw cotton as reinforcing fibers, a vast majority prefer to use recycled fibers from the textile industry [7,13,19,20], however, the number of published studies are still limited.…”