Contamination Threshold Values for Textile Recycling
摘要
Post-consumer textile recycling promises to reduce the amount of textile waste deposed at landfills and incinerated as thermal recycling. It can close loops within the apparel industry and reduce the amount of land and water usage for the production of virgin fibers for new textiles and garments. Despite the ad-vantages of textile recycling, currently only a small percentage of post-consumer textile waste is recycled worldwide. This figure is even less for fiber-to-fiber recycling for new apparel. Multiple recycling technologies are available today, some established, others still at pilot scale, with different requirements about input-materials and acceptable threshold values for contaminants. The following paper examinates typical contaminants found in garments and their threshold values for different recycling technologies.