Textile recycling

'Textile recycling and recycling - one understands the collection (see also charity shop ), sorting, processing and marketing of old textiles. These are set out in part as a used item back on the market or used as raw materials in industry rags, tear up textile and nonwovens industry and the paper industry.

History

An early appearance of the textile recycling were rag pickers, also known as Haderlump. The collected Hader ( rags ) were processed on paper.

The LVR Open Air Museum Lindlar a water-driven and operative rags tearing mill can be visited with historical equipment ( shredder and rags washing machine) from the time around 1890 since fall of 2011. In the building, the interactive exhibition "Textile way " is shown to the textile recycling industry in the past and present dedicated.

Sorting

Selling textiles in the domestic

  • Dress: 880,000 tons
  • Home 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 automotive and construction): 440,000 tons
  • Total: 1,900,000 tonnes ( as of 2001)

Collection volumes

  • Dress: 580,000 tons
  • Household textiles: 52,000 tons
  • Home Textiles: 84,000 tons
  • Total acquisition amount: 716,000 tons (2001 )

Acquisition systems

  • Street collection: 248,000 tons
  • Depot container: 372,000 tons
  • Recycling centers: 51,000 tons
  • Other Type of observation: 45,000 tons

Qualities

Marketing

The very small portion of the high-quality goods passes to second-hand store 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.

Pulp and paper industry Mitumba (clothing) Die Gartenlaube
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