Textile sustainability: reutilization of clean textile and apparel industry waste

摘要

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 industry’s. This article aims to analyse creative solutions that are being proposed by sustainable business models in the reuse of discarded fabrics by the textile industry. Search also through a qualitative research by a case study (the Bank of Fabrics for Reuse) understand the benefits generated by the re-use in environmental, economic, social and ways to add value.