An Approach of Recycling Textile Waste with Industrial Applications

The fashion industry output a great volume of waste caused by mass production. A great percentage of those garments are disposed in land fields after use, instead of being recycled. In order to prevent the generation of this enormous quantity of waste, the paper will explore methods or strategies to recycle natural and synthetic textile waste. Industrial methods used to recycle textile waste evaluated are: textile recycling to cellulose, separation and conversion of textile waste from wool-polyester and cotton-polyester blends. Associated Recyclability Potential Index (RPI) will be evaluated. Some methods to separate textile waste use selective digestion of wool fibers from wool-polyester mixtures. Some applications use the keratinize in two step process with addition of a reducing agent. The polyester fibers are recovered after the process. We can see that, after the process, the natural fibers are decomposed and the polyester fabric is in good conditions, then can be used for new garment production