Ecotoxicological impacts of synthetic microfiber pollutants and development of sustainable mitigation strategies

Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Advancing Textile Waste Recycling: Challenges and Opportunities Across Polymer and Non-Polymer Fiber Types

Polymers, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(5), С. 628 - 628

Опубликована: Фев. 26, 2025

The growing environmental impact of textile waste, fueled by the rapid rise in global fiber production, underscores urgent need for sustainable end-of-life solutions. This review explores cutting-edge pathways waste management, spotlighting innovations that reduce reliance on incineration and landfilling while driving material circularity. It highlights advancements collection, sorting, pretreatment technologies, as well both established emerging recycling methods. Smart collection systems utilizing tags sensors show great promise streamlining logistics automating pick-up routes transactions. For automated technologies like near-infrared hyperspectral imaging lead way accurate scalable separation. Automated disassembly techniques are effective at removing problematic elements, though other pretreatments, such color finish removal, still to be customized specific streams. Mechanical is ideal textiles with strong mechanical properties but has limitations, particularly blended fabrics, cannot repeated endlessly. Polymer recycling-through melting or dissolving polymers-produces higher-quality recycled materials comes high energy solvent demands. Chemical recycling, especially solvolysis pyrolysis, excels breaking down synthetic polymers polyester, potential yield virgin-quality monomers. Meanwhile, biological methods, their infancy, natural fibers cotton wool. When methods not viable, gasification can used convert into synthesis gas. concludes future hinges integrating sorting advancing solvent-based chemical technologies. These innovations, supported eco-design principles, progressive policies, industry collaboration, essential building a resilient, circular economy.

Язык: Английский

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Complete recycling and valorization of waste cotton-spandex blended fabrics into value-added UV-blocking cellulose/graphene films and transparent polyurethane film

Sustainable materials and technologies, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. e01234 - e01234

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Sustainable wastewater sludge@bimetallic cadmium-MOFs and nano-copper oxide as a promising shielding composite for gamma rays: Experimental and simulation investigations

Materials Science and Engineering B, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 308, С. 117609 - 117609

Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Recycling of Blended Fabrics for a Circular Economy of Textiles: Separation of Cotton, Polyester, and Elastane Fibers

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(14), С. 6206 - 6206

Опубликована: Июль 20, 2024

The growing textile industry is polluting the environment and producing waste at an alarming rate. wasteful consumption of fast fashion has made problem worse. management textiles been ineffective. Spurred by urgency reducing environmental footprint textiles, this review examines advances challenges to separate important constituents such as cotton (which mostly cellulose), polyester (polyethylene terephthalate), elastane, also known spandex (polyurethane), from blended textiles. Once separated, individual fiber types can meet demand for sustainable strategies in recycling. concepts mechanical, chemical, biological recycling are introduced first. Blended or mixed pose mechanical which cannot fibers blend. However, separation blends be achieved molecular recycling, i.e., selectively dissolving depolymerizing specific polymers Specifically, through dissolution, acidic hydrolysis, acid-catalyzed hydrothermal treatment, enzymatic hydrolysis discussed here, followed elastane other selective degradation dissolution elastane. information synthesized analyzed assist stakeholders sectors mapping out achieving practices promoting shift towards a circular economy.

Язык: Английский

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Multifunctional composites made from waste polyester cotton fabric and waste rigid polyurethane foam for potential building wall material applications

Energy and Buildings, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 115274 - 115274

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The Current State-of-the-Art of the Processes Involved in the Chemical Recycling of Textile Waste

Molecules, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 30(2), С. 299 - 299

Опубликована: Янв. 13, 2025

The textile industry’s rapid growth and reliance on synthetic fibres have generated significant environmental pollution, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable waste management practices. Chemical recycling offers a promising pathway to reduce by converting used into valuable raw materials, yet technical challenges remain due complex compositions of waste, such as dyes, additives, blended fabrics.

Язык: Английский

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Environmental Sustainability of Fashion Product Made from Post-Consumer Waste: Impact Across the Life Cycle

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(5), С. 1917 - 1917

Опубликована: Фев. 24, 2025

The fashion industry has a detrimental environmental impact throughout its supply chain operations that needs immediate attention. Limited work focuses on measuring the sustainability of clothing products made from post-consumer waste in circular economy. This research aims to evaluate using Higg Index tool developed by Sustainable Apparel Coalition. Three t-shirt manufacturers—namely factory A (LEED certified), B (non-LEED and C (Sub-contract) were considered as case studies. Data collected through practice-based qualitative questions manufacturing practitioners, which supplemented triangulations, scores obtained product tool. findings highlight significant variations most subsection analyses for environment dimensions, scoring 369.5 (73.9%), 277.6 (55.5%), 153.5 (30.7%) out 500 factories A, B, C, respectively. Findings reveal differences (from low high) three manufacturers. Various subsections revealed deficiencies actual policies including design, materials selection, operations, priorities regarding subcategories. Products green embracing economy achieved highest score, while sub-contractor lowest score. poor emerging sustainable practices, identify challenges, suggest improvement above-mentioned categories. urges stakeholders embrace practices reduce life cycle stages benefit industry.

Язык: Английский

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Eco-innovative approaches for recycling non-polyester/cotton blended textiles

Waste Management Bulletin, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Sustainability-Oriented Innovation in the Textile Manufacturing Industry: Pre-Consumer Waste Recovery and Circular Patterns

Environments, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(3), С. 82 - 82

Опубликована: Март 5, 2025

The textile manufacturing industry is energy- and water-intensive, has a great impact on the environment. Sustainability-oriented innovation can support transition of sector towards circular economy. This review investigates how chain benefit from sustainability-driven strategies to achieve main economy goals. was conducted using Scopus Web Science scientific databases, it addresses material, process, organizational innovations covers 2015–2024 time window. Five areas emerged retrieved papers, including digitalization, need for innovative product process design sustainable raw materials, use waste as new material outside value chain, recovery within environmental remediation, innovation. solutions analyzed improve sustainability enable achievement Finally, we discuss some concerns about introduction suggested innovations, apply principles recyclability durability while studying feasibility adopting novel materials.

Язык: Английский

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