Wieland Textiles
Wieland Textiles B.V. sorts and exports used (post consumer) clothing. We are specialized in sorting clothing collected in the Netherlands. Together with the KICI foundation we do this in a sustainable way. We try to be as transparent as possible in order to take full responsibility for the process of recycling post-consumer material.
Wieland Textiles is sorting post consumer textile waste, mainly clothing. In the present situation the textiles are manually sorted on wearable and non-wearable textiles. The wearable textiles are sold to second hand shops or to exporters who transport the clothing to 2nd and 3rd world countries.
The non-wearable textiles are manually sorted in a number of fraction for a number of purposes. Bed linen can be cut into wiping cloths and wool and acryl can be used in the blanket industry.
By sorting the non-wearable textiles on chemical composition and colour it is expected that the value of these textiles will be much higher. The Jeans for Jeans project has shown the potential of a sorted jeans fraction, and the extra price that can be obtained for such a fraction. Other interesting fractions might include dress-shirts, T-shirts and bed linen (100 % cotton, large fraction of white fibres), pullovers (wool/acryl mixtures), trousers (polyester /cotton and polyester/wool blends), …
Visit the website: www.wielandtextiles.com
