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

K Choudhury, M Tsianou… - Sustainability (2071 …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
The growing textile industry is polluting the environment and producing waste at an alarming
rate. The wasteful consumption of fast fashion has made the problem worse. The waste …

A decade review of research trends using waste materials in the building and construction industry: a pathway towards a circular economy

R Haigh - Waste, 2023 - mdpi.com
The construction industry is among the most prominent contributors to global resource
consumption, waste production, and greenhouse gas emissions. A pivotal step toward …

[HTML][HTML] Environmentally sustainable apparel merchandising of recycled cotton-polyester blended garments: analysis of consumer preferences and purchasing …

AD Pranta, MT Rahaman, MR Repon… - Journal of Open …, 2024 - Elsevier
This research work examines how consumer behavior and purchasing pattern are affected
by recycled cotton-polyester blended clothing, with a particular emphasis on sustainable …

Polycotton waste textile recycling by sequential hydrolysis and glycolysis

N Leenders, RM Moerbeek, MJ Puijk… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
As a result of the current high throughput of the fast fashion collections and the concomitant
decrease in product lifetime, we are facing enormous amounts of textile waste. Since textiles …

[HTML][HTML] Pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis as a useful tool in identifying fibre composition in mixed post-consumer textile waste

RB Baloyi, BB Sithole - Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 2024 - Elsevier
The progress of textile recycling is significantly impeded by the absence of adequate
methodologies for determining the composition of fibres in textile blends. The examination of …

Textile waste pretreatment for anaerobic digestion: a review and technology feasibility study

N Tharmarajah, K Shahbaz… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing volume of textile waste in landfills and incineration poses severe
environmental challenges. Waste valorisation of textile waste via anaerobic digestion (AD) is …

Advances in catalytic chemical recycling of synthetic textiles

C Moreno-Marrodán, F Brandi, P Barbaro, F Liguori - Green Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic fibres cover most of the textile market, but their value chain is almost entirely linear.
Common raw materials are non-renewable and oil-derived while requiring large amounts of …

[HTML][HTML] A greener approach for physical separation of polycotton textile waste

YS Khoo, YN Liang, X Hu, JW Chew - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most textile waste ends up in the landfill. Clearly, enhancing textile recycling is urgently
needed. For circularity, efficient means for separating the constituents of the textile blends is …

Recycling waste textiles for the synthesis of δ-MnO2/C catalysts with full-light conversion to highly photothermal oxidation indoor formaldehyde

J Wang, L Liu, Q Li, R Liu, Y Zheng, L Hou… - Separation and …, 2025 - Elsevier
The growth of the textile industry has brought about increasingly abundant waste textiles
annually. However, traditional treatment would cause serious soil, water and air …

Environmental modification of cellulose fibers for reducing dye diffusion rate by anionic polyacrylamide

L Pei, S Sun, J Yi, J Shen, Y An, G Sun, J Wang - Polymer, 2024 - Elsevier
Reactive dyeing is the primary method for coloring cellulose fibers due to its vibrant colors,
various hues, excellent colorfastness, and cost-effectiveness. However, this process …