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Textile sustainability: reuse of clean waste from the textile and apparel industry

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, , Citation A C Broega et al 2017 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 254 192006 DOI 10.1088/1757-899X/254/19/192006

1757-899X/254/19/192006

Abstract

Today societies are already experiencing changes in their production systems and even consumption in order to guarantee the survival and well-being of future generations. This fact emerges from the need to adopt a more sustainable posture in both people's daily lives and productive systems. Within this context, textile sustainability emerges as the object of study of this work whose aim is to analyse which sustainability dimensions are being prioritized by the clean waste management systems of the textile and garment industries. This article aims to analyse solutions that are being proposed by sustainable creative business models in the reuse of discarded fabrics by the textile industry. Search also through a qualitative research by a case study (the Reuse Fabric Bank) understand the benefits generated by the re-use in environmental, economic, social and ways to add value.

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