Development and testing of a sorting and quality assessment method for textile waste

N Nørup, K Pihl, A Damgaard, C Scheutz - Waste management, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to the high resource consumption and environmental impacts of textile production,
better handling of discarded materials has a great environmental improvement potential. A …

Current state of pre-consumer apparel waste management in Macedonia

S Jordeva, E Tomovska… - Fibres &Textiles in Eastern …, 2015 - eprints.ugd.edu.mk
Effective utilisation of textile waste requires an accurate prediction of the quality of waste
generated. Textile waste in Macedonia mainly consists of apparel cuttings. The aim of this …

Evaluation of a European textile sorting centre: Material flow analysis and life cycle inventory

N Nørup, K Pihl, A Damgaard, C Scheutz - Resources, Conservation and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies have shown that the optimal treatments of textile waste
follow the waste hierarchy. Consequently, there is great potential for environmental …

Quantity and quality of clothing and household textiles in the Danish household waste

N Nørup, K Pihl, A Damgaard, C Scheutz - Waste Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that studies have indicated that a large proportion of textiles is disposed in
the waste, only few studies have looked at the content of textiles in waste, and even less …

Recent advances in recycling technologies for waste textile fabrics: A review

RB Baloyi, OJ Gbadeyan, B Sithole… - Textile Research …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The fast fashion trends in the textile industry have resulted in high consumption of fiber with
concomitant generation of waste. Awareness of environmental pollution resulting from textile …

Investigation of current state of pre-consumer textile waste generated at Lithuanian enterprises

V Dobilaite, G Mileriene, M Juciene… - International Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose Production and consumption of textile garments contribute significantly to
environment problems. The purpose of this paper is to perform the evaluation of textile waste …

Textile waste in Ontario, Canada: Opportunities for reuse and recycling

S Weber, O Weber, K Habib, GM Dias - Resources, Conservation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Textile waste is a new waste category, and there is a lack of research on the quantity and
quality of textiles in the municipal waste stream. Textile quality analysis (ie, the condition of …

Improving recycling of textiles based on lessons from policies for other recyclable materials: A minireview

G Hole, AS Hole - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2020 - Elsevier
Textile consumption has significantly increased, and textile encompasses about 5% of
landfill. The EU circular economy package adopted in 2018 will for the first time require …

A review on textile recycling practices and challenges

JP Juanga-Labayen, IV Labayen, Q Yuan - Textiles, 2022 - mdpi.com
The expansion of clothing and textile industry and the fast fashion trend among consumers
have caused a rapid global increase in textile waste in the municipal solid waste (MSW) …

Fiber and textile waste utilization

Y Wang - Waste and biomass valorization, 2010 - Springer
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 …