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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Textile waste"”.
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133kgs of Denim: Investigating and challenging symptomatic solutions to textile waste in Aotearoa New Zealand with an educational lens
133kgs of denim waste, collected from a local op shop to use in my design studio made me realise, whilst my upcycling initiatives of circular children’s clothing and later denim faux fur were new and innovative in my local market, I was only temporarily diverting the problem of textile waste to …
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Strengthening Consumer and Retailer Responsibility for TextileReuse and Donation in Cambridge and Boston
… dispose of approximately 230,000 tons of textiles each year. In Boston and Cambridge, almost all household trash is incinerated due to at-capacity landfills. This presents a critical need to divert textile waste towards secondary uses, avoiding the release of greenhouse gases and toxins …
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Zinc distribution in a small stream receiving treated textile wastewater
Effluent samples for a treated textile waste water and treated domestic sewage waste water and water and sediment samples for an 8.2 km region of Ash Camp Creek near Keysville, Virginia, were collected in June, 1977. Effluent and stream water samples were analyzed for various water quality …
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Design for Recycling Knitwear: a framework for sorting, blending and cascading in the mechanical textile recycling industry
The problem of difficult-to-recycle textile waste is usually laid at the designer’s door. However, the strategy ‘Design for Recycling’ is not only underexplored in the field of textile design, but the solutions offered are oversimplified and impractical for the complex materials that we have been …
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Textile Design for Disassembly: A creative textile design methodology for designing detachable connections for material combinations
Textile waste is a growing issue and with increasing consumption rates, solutions must be explored to close the loop. Currently, only 1-2% of this waste stream is recycled to new textiles (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017a). To enable a shift towards a more circular textile economy, current …
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Exploring the predictors of sustainable fast fashion purchase intention : an investigation using the theory of planned behaviour among South African consumers
… effect, primarily from high carbon emissions, textile waste, and pollution. The rise of fast fashion, which involves the mass production of trendy and affordable clothing, has significantly fueled the industry's growth but has also had severe environmental repercussions. Despite these negative …
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Navigating (un)sustainability: (non)consumption of second-hand fashion across countries and generations
… sector’s most urgent environmental challenges, textile waste, by examining clothing reuse, particularly second-hand consumption, as a potential mechanism for (un)sustainability under certain conditions. With the second-hand market experiencing growth and mainstream adoption, second-hand …
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Transitionary Textiles: a craft-based journey of textile design practice towards new values and roles for a sustainable fashion industry
The current fashion textiles industry is based on an outdated, exploitative system that encourages fast consumption, generates huge amounts of textile waste, creates toxic impacts to ecosystems and causes significant social impacts to production workers. The move towards a more sustainable industry …
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Sustainable sorting; a human-centric approach to second-hand clothing decisions
… in Africa has severely undermined the domestic textile industry, resulting in job losses in the formal and informal sectors. Additionally, the excessive disposal of these garments poses significant environmental challenges, leading to greenhouse gas emissions and soil pollution. This study aims …
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Unravelling Tales of Truth: The Digital Battle Between Greenwashing Giants and Fashion Eco-Warriors
… or expose the true cost of overproduction and waste within the fashion industry. In the thesis, I theorise shiny sustainability as a form of greenwashing, which feeds on glossy and affective narratives created by industry players to generate moral gratification without making credible, …
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Laser-finishing: a new process for designing recyclability in synthetic textiles
… as a mechanism of industrial ecology where all waste can be reused in a perpetual material metabolism or system. Of the total textile fibre produced globally, up to 65% is lost, post-consumer, to landfill, incineration or composting. Of this, at least 50% is said to be recyclable (Laursen et al, …
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Novel chemical and toxicological studies on textile industry waste streams clean up
The textile industry is a major water consumer and producer of effluent waste water. A comprehensive review of the literature shows an urgent need to improve the treatment of dyeing and finishing plant effluent. To destroy dyes and purify dye house effluents modem photochemical oxidation methods, …
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Biological Treatment of a Synthetic Dye Water and an Industrial Textile Wastewater Containing Azo Dye Compounds
… Synthetic dye solutions and an industrial textile wastewater were both treated using anaerobic and aerobic biomass, separately and in sequential step-treatment processes. The primary objective was to reduce the wastewater color to an intensity that complies with the Virginia Pollutant …
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Toxicity and biodegradability assays for hazardous landfill leachate and textile size effluents
Submitted in fulfillment of the academic requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology: Biotechnology, Durban Institute of Technology, 2005.
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RECOVERY AND SEPARATION PROCESSES IN THE RECYCLING CHAIN OF POLYAMIDE PLASTIC MATERIALS TO OBTAINECO-SUSTAINABLE RAW MATERIALS
… fashion and the growing accumulation of mixed textile and plastic waste are creating serious environmental and economic challenges. In particular, polyamides, commonly used in technical textiles and plastics, are often blended with other polymers, making recycling difficult. Traditional methods …
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DALA, prototipo de cama para mascotas con llanta y tela reutilizada
… en desuso y grandes cantidades de desechos textiles terminan en vertederos, causando severos daños ecológicos (Min ambiente, 2022). Este proyecto aborda esta problemática al transformar residuos en productos valiosos, promoviendo la reutilización y minimizando los impactos ambientales.
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Analizar la viabilidad de la recuperación y aprovechamiento del algodón proveniente de los residuos textiles en la ciudad de Bogotá para el año 2023
… Bogotá se disponen más de 147.000 toneladas de textiles (Ramirez, 2022) generando agotamiento de los recursos naturales, a su vez la reciclabilidad de los textiles a nivel mundial es menor al 0,1% (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017). Para el 2021 el gasto en moda textil alcanzó los 27,7 billones …
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