Textile waste
Best practices
Manufacturing oil-absorbent rugs from used textiles
Textile company's textbook circular economy case Textile company looks for ways to cut waste and develop new products A solid test case for circular economic thinking, diverting waste from landfill The textile industry alone produces around 20 million kilogrammes of textile waste annually. Of total...
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Industrial symbiosis in automotive textile industry
Waste as a resource not a problem By giving waste to another company, automotive company saves about € 6 000 annually Win-win relationship turns waste from one company into a resource for another Magna Automotive CZ Ltd. is a Czech subsidiary of Canadian company Magna which manufactures seat covers...
Best practices
Making use of leftovers - remanufacturing in the global fashion industry
Pre-consumer textile waste in the cloth manufacturing sector is currently estimated at around 20 %. However, research suggests this figure could be much higher if all cutting scraps, production rejects (not meeting quality standards) and unsold items are taken into consideration. Global brands, the...