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Review Article
Recycled fibers: An overview
Dinesh Bhatia1, Ankush Sharma2 and Urvashi Malhotra3
Department of Textile Technology
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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (India) 144011
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J.N.G.E.C Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh (India) 175018
Cell: +91 8054603399, E mail: dineshbhatia55@rediffmail.com
Received 30 October 2014; accepted 13 November 2014
Abstract
Today, in the world of modern technologies, the demand for production is increasing so rapidly in all aspects of the
required living commodities. In order to meet all the required demands, over production and utilization of all resources
seem not enough. Therefore, the increasing demand for textile making huge clothing production is not only based on
demand for more population but it’s also changing new fashion habits as well. Improving raw material exploitation has
become the most important challenge facing scientific and industrial community. Textile production wastes are undesirable
but inevitable by- products in many manufacturing process (spinning, weaving, knitting, or garment manufacturing) and
are frequently undervalued. However, if one can convert such wastes into useful product economically, there will be great
contribution to the market. In this paper attempt has been made to give idea about different types of waste produced in
textile industries (spinning, weaving, knitting, or garment manufacturing) and also types of waste which can be used again
in recycling process to make some value added product. Also give different types of methods by which this waste can be
used to make new high quality products from existing material.
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Keywords: Fibers, Recycled, Textile and Waste.
Figure 6.2 Example of underlay carpet. Figure 6.4 Example of shoe insoles.
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Table 7.1 Industries which uses recycled fibres along with their application area
Industry Application Area
Automobile industry: insulating webs for sound and heat insulation, hard-
pressed parts for floors, side and seat linings, trunk compartment, luggage dump
Nonwovens industry
etc., bottom felts for carpeting, stitch-knit nonwovens (Moliwatt, Molivlies).
Mattress covers, mattress webs, bottom webs for seating in furniture, upholstery
material, wadding material.
Furniture industry Wiping cloths
Needled webs.
Sound and heat insulating webs, filter products, nonwoven coating substrates,
Building industry and footfall sound insulation. Textile shreds as filling material for insulating
webs, as aggregate for textile concrete in road construction.
Spinning waste, blended yarns or 100% waste yarns for spinning to the DREF
or rotor spinning process (wiping cloths, blankets, and home furnishings),
Textile industry
comforters made of acrylic knit goods waste.
Paper industry Wearing felts for paper production, Crude felts for bitumen roofing felts.
7. Uses and Ranges of Application for Recycled Textile recycled fibres are shown in Table 7.1.
Fibres 8. Limitation of Recycling
Reclaimed fibres can be manufactured from a variety of Promoting waste avoidance on purely environmental
textile waste. Both quality and process ability of such fibres reasons may not be sufficient. As costs for collection
depend on the kind of waste. Well-known are the pure and disposal services are not linked directly with the
sorted fibres of high-quality which are achieved from quantity and sorting of wastes generated through
spinning-fibre waste. In contrast, reclaimed fibres made charging,
from end-of-life textiles are of much poorer quality. They There is no financial incentive for waste producers to
will rarely be found of homogenous fiber type. reduce waste.
There are many ways open to using reclaimed fibres in both Low values, high transportation cost or lack of market
textile and non-textile products. The suitability of processes demand for recovered materials particularly.
depends on waste characteristics and on how much they The predominance of small and medium recovery and
cost. Yarns are a frequent example of how reclaimed fibres recycling enterprises discourages investments in waste
can be used. Yarns made from reclaimed fibres may serve recovery technologies.
to produce fabrics for garment and household textiles as 9. Conclusion
well as for simple technical applications. However, as yarns A large amount of textile waste is disposed of in landfills
made from reclaimed fibres, in most cases, are grey or dark each year. That not only poses economic and
by nature, they are not frequently used in garment or environmental problems to the society but also represents a
household textiles. With technical yarns, colour ranks in severe waste of resources. Although the environmental
second place. Even special-purpose fibre materials are awareness of the general public has increased significantly
made into reclaimed fibres today. in recent years, still their willingness to actively participate
In the following, a few examples of possible uses in the in waste reduction by recycling needs to be enhanced. Fiber
snonwovens, carpet, building, textiles, agricultural and recycling technologies, usage and range of application of
paper industries are given, but new ranges of application recycled fibres described in this paper will become a handy
are opened up every day (see Figure 7.1). The various uses tool to assimilate the waste as value added product, which
mainly depend on how the textile and nonwovens waste is waste was earlier considered as garbage and sold unduly.
formed during the individual process stages. This will then So people those are impetuous for waste disposal would
determine the possible recycling process. Consequently, think rationally about the rejuvenation of waste fibers for
various technologies are required for reprocessing. Some raise the profit for their firm and also it reflects noble cause
industries along with their application area which uses for society by reducing the contamination in environment.
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Figure 7.1 Reuse and recyclability of textile waste.
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