Recycling

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Recyclable Textile Materials  (Page 1)

Textile industry is one of the biggest industries in the world.  As long people wears cloth, there will be a textile industry.  When clothes become old and out of fashion, people will just throw them away.  These clothes are generally made of fabrics such as polyester.  Instead of dumping everything into the landfill, these fabrics can be recycled and made into new clothes or textile-related products.  To learn about the actual textile recycling process, please visit our section Current Recycling Processes – Textile. This section provides a list of today’s recyclable textile materials. The following information was extracted directly from Recycler’s World. COTTON RECYCLING a.) White Cotton Clips – Must be 100% cotton and 100% white, does not contain printed or colored materials. b.) Colored Cotton Clips – consist of 100% cotton fabric that is printed or dyed and may not include non-cotton fibers or blends. c.) Mixed Cotton Waste – consist of 100% cotton fabric that is printed or dyed and may not include non-cotton fibers or blends.  Mixed cotton Waste may include assorted linen, denim, flannel, canvas, terry cloth, corduroy. d.) Cotton Fiber & Thread Waste – consist of 100% cotton fibers & threads and may not contain woven materials. e.) Denim Scrap – consist of common new or old white-backed blue denim and may include such common items as scrap blue jeans, overalls, jackets or blue denim trimmings. f.) No.1 Denim Clips – consist of sorted new or old white-backed blue denim and may not include zippers, rivets or stitching. g.) Cotton Blend Clips – consist of clean trimmings of cotton blends such as cotton/polyester shirt clips.  Cotton Blend Clips may not include whole articles of clothing with buttons, zippers or stitching. h.) Scrap Cotton Blends – consist of assorted cotton blends such as articles of cotton/polyester clothing. WOOL RECYCLING a.) Mixed Wool Stock – assorted woolen items, sorted to be free of non-woolen and synthetic materials but not graded into specific wool stock grades. b.) Mixed Wool Knits – consist of assorted colors of wool knitwear and may include socks, sweaters and blankets. c.) Rough Worsteds – consist of pants, suit jackets, and worsted woolen clothing of assorted colors. d.) Rough Overcoating – consist of assorted colors of wool overcoats, pea jackets, mackinaws, snow suits. BURLAP, JUTE, AND SISAL RECYCLING a.) New Burlap Clippings – consist of unused clippings or cuttings of burlap. b.) Old Burlap Bag Scrap – contain assorted burlap bag scraps or used cuttings or clippings. c.) Assorted Rope & Twine Scrap – contain assorted new or used jute, burlap, sisal or hemp rope or twine. POLYURETHANE FOAM RECYCLING a.) Mixed PU foam Scrap / Postconsumer – consist of assorted scrap Polyurethane Foam. b.) Sorted Preconsumer PU Scrap – consist of sorted clean preconsumer Polyurethane scraps.  May contain automotive or furniture manufacturing scraps. c.) Baled Preconsumer PU / Prime Scrap – consist of clean, sorted preconsumer Polyurethane Foam that has been compressed into uniform material in handleable bales. d.) Chipped PU Foam – consist of uniform chips of Clean Polyurethane Foam that has bead sized to minus 2 inch and all fines have been removed. e.) PU Foam Granules – consist of uniform clean polyurethane foam that has been sized to minus 1/4 inch.

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