Recycling of Pre and Post Textiles Waste-A Review

摘要

Due to the growth in world population and overall improvement of living standard, global fiber consumption has been steadily increasing in the past few decades, which leads to a higher amount of pre and post consumer fiber waste. Garments or household textile (such as sheets or towels) can effectively be recycled by sale or gift to another user. The UK based Recycling Association, estimates that up to 95 % of the textiles that are land filled each year could be recycled. Of the textile waste recovered by the charities, 60 % is items of clothing that can be reworn or reused and 15 % can be torn into industrial wipe cloths. Recycling is a key concept of modern waste management. Recycling is the reprocessing of waste materials into new or reusable products. All textile waste streams are often unrealised sources of valuable raw materials that can be repurposed or regenerated into saleable and usable products by intelligent collection, sorting, reengineering and reprocessing. In general, textiles can be used again formally or informally, recycled into new textile or other products, used for energy incineration with energy recovery, landfilled and waste dumps. The paper gives a review of the recycling of waste and its various uses.