Textile recycling
Under textile recycling or -rezyklierung means the collection (see also old clothes ), sorting, processing and marketing of old textiles . Some of these are brought back onto the market as second-hand goods or used as raw materials for the cleaning rag industry , the garnetted stock and nonwovens industry , and the paper industry. Further recycling options are insulation materials in the automotive industry.
history
An early form of textile recycling were rag collectors , also known as haders . The collected Hader (rags) were added to paper processed.
In the LVR open-air museum in Lindlar , a water-powered and operational rag shredder with historical machines (shredder and rag washing machine) from around 1890 can be viewed since autumn 2011. The building also houses the interactive exhibition "Textile Ways", which is dedicated to industrial textile recycling in the past and present.
Sorting
Domestic sales of textiles
- Clothing: 880,000 tons
- Household textiles (bed linen, towels and the like): 140,000 tons
- Home textiles (carpets, curtains and the like): 440,000 tons
- Technical textiles (medical textiles, textiles in vehicle construction and construction): 440,000 tons
- Total amount: 1,900,000 tons (as of 2001)
Collection quantities
- Clothing: 580,000 tons
- Household textiles: 52,000 tons
- Home textiles: 84,000 tons
- Total collection volume: 716,000 tons (as of 2001)
Detection systems
- Street collection: 248,000 tons
- Depot container: 372,000 tons
- Recycling yards: 51,000 tons
- Other type of capture: 45,000 tons
qualities
In the rough sorting, the following main product groups arise:
- 40% used wearable clothes
- 35% raw materials for the cleaning rag industry
- 10% raw materials for the garnetted stock and nonwovens industry
- 5% raw material for the paper and cardboard industry
- 10% residues that have to be disposed of
marketing
The very small part of the high-quality goods goes to second-hand shops in the country of origin. The vast majority of viable used clothing is sold to Eastern Europe and as so-called Mitumba to various third world countries in Africa and Asia.
literature
- Rag cloth . In: The Gazebo . Issue 48, 1872, pp. 795, 796 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).