8 March ’10
Recycling of used clothing to undergo revolution
A textile project of the European Union has developed a machine which is capable of sorting used items of clothing, chemical composition wise and colour wise, after which these clothing are shredded to be spun in to yarn, which can again be re-used for producing fresh textile fabrics.
According to Ellen Van Den Adel, owner of ‘Work on Progress’, which is jointly working on the ‘Textiles 4 Textiles’ project with other like-minded organizations, 50 percent of the used garments collected from the Netherlands as well as UK cannot be reused, hence must be recycled.
Read on at fibre2fashion.com
