Model of Industrial Textile Waste Management

This paper examines the process of achieving environmental sustainability through recycling of textile wastes. It is organized as a review and editorial article, relating relevant research regarding sustainable development and recycling of textile waste, and outlining economic, environmental and social implications and suggested future actions. The recycling of textile waste can serve as a mean of providing solutions to financial, environmental and social problems such as high cost of waste disposal, and diminution of natural resources, create workplaces, opening opportunities for SMEs. The benefits and problems of this exercise are also highlighted. The conclusion drawn is that the recycling of waste brings benefits to all three aspects that define sustainability: economic, social and environmental, especially in solving the numerous ecological problems and boosting new economy sectors, but there are also negative aspects too. To quantify the potential ecological benefits, the economic and social effects of textile waste recycling, the paper proposes a framework model which makes tradeoff between costs of reverse network for textile waste establishing and operating, and its effects on the employment increase, and resold wearable textiles earnings. The main limit of the presented model is the fact that it is based on the premise that there is already a collecting infrastructure and a market for the recycled products. But, in Romania the textile waste collecting, especially the post-consumer one still remains an unsolved problem. In the conclusions, the paper presents several proposals whose solutions represent future research directions.

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017

Today societies are already experiencing changes in their production systems and even consumption in order to guarantee the survival and well-being of future generations. This fact emerges from the need to adopt a more sustainable posture in both people's daily lives and productive systems. Within this context, textile sustainability emerges as the object of study of this work whose aim is to analyse which sustainability dimensions are being prioritized by the clean waste management systems of the textile and garment industries. This article aims to analyse solutions that are being proposed by sustainable creative business models in the reuse of discarded fabrics by the textile industry. Search also through a qualitative research by a case study (the Reuse Fabric Bank) understand the benefits generated by the re-use in environmental, economic, social and ways to add value.

Advanced Technologies

In Macedonia, as a country with a developed apparel industry, a significant amount of pre-consumer textile waste is generated, more precisely apparel cutting waste. The aim of this paper is to make an accurate estimate of its quantity, as well as the characterization based on the raw material composition as a prerequisite for its further handling. Before any recycling initiative for textile waste, an analysis should be made of whether its quantity and quality can ensure the continuity of the recycling process. The analysis shows that the amount of apparel cutting waste is a fairly constant value (in the period from 2009 to 2014 an average of 3,377 tons of apparel cutting waste was generated annually). The waste from cotton and cotton blends is most common. Despite the constant annual amount of apparel cutting waste and numerous reasons for its recycling, almost all this waste ends in landfills.

V INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE CONTEMPORARY TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 2022

As a result of global population growth and rising living standards, textile fiber production and consumption are projected to continue to grow and global fiber production is expected to reach 156 million tonnes by 2030. The increase in the production and consumption of textile products causes an increase in the amount of generated textile waste. The increasing quantities of textile waste is a significant problem, as 2 to 15 kilograms of waste per person are generated annually in Europe. The largest producers of textile waste in Europe are Belgium, Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy, Austria and Netherlands. Only 20% of clothing waste is collected globally for reuse or recycling. The remaining 80% is deposited or incinerated, resulting in a large loss of energy and raw materials.

Textile is one of the primary needs of human beings in the modern world. The Textile industry has a vast production capacity across the globe. Regarding the production capacity, it generates a considerable amount of solid waste. Under sustainable development, most textile industries pay attention to implementing a proper waste management system. The importance of reducing, reusing, recycling, and managing waste is motivated by the increasing cost and decreasing availability of dumping areas, and the diminishing of natural resources. The central government imposes several regulations, protocols, and structures to guide the process of textile industries towards being environmentally friendly. Most textile industries worldwide tend to establish a sustainable development department to implement the waste management process. But the main barriers to managing wastes are lack of technology, lack of equipment, and lack of consumer awareness about recycled and upcycled products. It is essential to give knowledge to consumers about the value of buying recycled and upcycled products. It will help ensure a good market for these products and motivate textile industries to manage their waste correctly.

Journal of Textile Science & Engineering, 2014

The paper examines the process of achieving environmental sustainability through recycling of textile wastes. The recycling of textile waste can serve as a means of providing solutions to many economic, environmental and social issues. Though textile recycling has old history; in recent years it has assumed prime importance due to Fast Fashion culture in western world which has resulted in over consumption of textiles and corresponding waste generation. Today waste recycling has become a multibillion industry. Innovations are being made in terms of development of sorting machines, design inputs, innovative high value products to make recycling a profitable proposition. The paper also highlights in brief the efforts being made by various agencies and stake holders to achieve the aim of present 15% textile waste diversion rate to 75% diversion.

Operations and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 2014

This paper examines the process of achieving environmental sustainability through recycling of textile wastes. The recycling of textile waste can serve as a mean of providing solutions to many financial and environmental problems such as high cost of waste disposal and diminution of natural resources. The benefits and problems of this exercise are also highlighted. There are benefits to all three aspects that define sustainability: economical, social and environmental but there are also negative aspects too. The conclusion drawn is that the recycling of waste is of huge benefits especially in solving the numerous environmental problems and boosting the nation's economy. To quantify potential ecological benefits and economical effects of textiles waste recycling, the paper proposes modeling framework which makes trade off between costs of reverse network for textiles waste establishing and operating, and its effects on the virgin materials consumption, land use reduction, employment increase, and resold wearable textiles earnings.

textile learner, 2022

This study is a collective assessment on the numerous ways accessible to recycling textile garbage like composting, paper production, approaches employed by fashion businesses to recycle old garments. Special attention is given to technical textile materials, composite materials and non-woven industries that entail product development employing upcycled wastes. This might be an amazing experience to scholars and entrepreneur worldwide to engage in more scientific research and assist in lowering the disposal pollution

Industria Textila, 2020

At European level, there are concrete measures regarding waste management in the circular economy, and these refer to: mandatory recycling rates for different categories of waste: plastics, glass, metals, paper and cardboard as well as biodegradable waste; the obligation to redesign the products in order to increase the proportion of raw materials resulting from recycling and to increase the degree of recycling of products, in order to consider them as secondary raw materials; promoting and stimulating the reuse of products; increasing the recycling rate of municipal waste by 2030 to a minimum of 65%; increasing the recycling rate of packaging waste by 2030 to a minimum of 75%; reduction of food wastage and implicitly of the resulted food waste by 50% by 2030. The large amount of packaging waste determined the taking of legislative measures that defined the obligations of pack- aging producers/distributors, recycling objectives and the waste management hierarchy. New targets for the...

Proceedings of the 6th Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym’20), 2021

Lean manufacturing is a methodology that focuses on continuous improvement and waste elimination. This methodology is supported by its tools, namely, lean tools, to identify and eliminate waste. This article presents a model for reducing waste in the Peruvian textile industry. The Peruvian textile manufacturing industry is characterized by its manual or semi-manual operation, differentiating itself from foreign competition, which tends to use automated machinery. Such foreign competition forces the local industry to maximize its operations. In a case study of a company, waste identified was reprocessing, with an index of 21.63%. To reduce this waste, tools identified in the literature, such as lean tools, 5S, workstation design, and process management, are used for reducing rework to 11.58% .