Recycled wool

Recycled wool

Fibres

Published in Ashok R. Khare, Principles of Spinning, 2021

‘Shoddy’ or recycled wool is made by cutting or tearing apart the old, used fabrics. This reduces the length of the fibre appreciably, and hence the fabrics made out of this wool are inferior to those of virgin wool. Recycled wool may be mixed with virgin wool or any other fibre such as cotton to improve its functioning. These yarns are generally used as weft.

A review: can waste wool keratin be regenerated as a novel textile fibre via the reduction method?

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Published in The Journal of The Textile Institute, 2022

Milda Lebedytė, Danmei Sun

Highlighting the positive economic impacts of recycling textiles is another strong driving point in changes on an industrial scale. This is difficult to quantify exactly, but the Pulse of the Fashion Industry (2017) reported that if the fashion industry addresses the current environmental and social issues, the world economy could annually gain EUR 160 billion (USD 192 billion) (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017). On a small scale, using a blend of wool and recycled wool can be as much as 40% cheaper than using just virgin wool (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017; Williams, 2010). As a result of these benefits, it is clear that wool recycling should be further developed (Liu et al., 2018) as a potential to displace the fibres on the current textile market.

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A review: can waste wool keratin be regenerated as a novel textile fibre via the reduction method?