An innovative textile product proposal based on sustainability: recycling wastes from the wool industry

"Innovations in Mechanical Engineering: conference proceedings", ISBN 978-3-030-79164-3In a world where consumers are increasingly more aware of the issues on Sustainability, this scientific article presents a partial stage of the PhD research that exposes an investigation that led to the development of a new textile product for recycling clean solid waste from the wool industry. Even at an early stage, the prototypes that were achieved have a high potential, as an innovative and sustainable propose of product. The research development includes scientific methods such as Case Study, Field Research and laboratory prototyping (experimental research issue). For the study, a local and important Wool Textile Industry was chosen, for analysis, diagnostic and confirmation of the Literature Review, focusing on the industrial textile clean wastes that most express the production bottleneck. At the end, the article foresees the next steps of the research, in order to improve and characterize the product, enhancing the possibilities of sustainable aspects on it