Objective
By the year 2000, the waste management market should be growing 8 % per year. The increased use of incineration means that only 40 % of household waste treated each year is now dumped in landfills.
In Europe, the landfill centers should be doubled by 2000 to meet the growing needs : this reflects the inadequacy of existing storage capacity and the saturation of existing sites. Every year, in Europe, 1.6 millions tons of textile waste are dumped to landfill and the disposal costs are very high. The aim of this proposed research is to investigate the possibility of producing felts and similar products from textile waste generated by the sorting of the clothing collected by charitaties and commercial organisa-tions. The waste, including the rags, for which the market is very weak, is representing 40 % of the total volume treated by the sorting-houses. The major research tasks are : classification of the waste, identification of the fibres (NIR), Opening and web formation (needlepunching and/or thermal bonding), finishing. Not all the waste can be used in the above mentioned production. Consequently, in order to propose a complete solution, some other possibilities will be indicated in this study.
Successful completion should yield to a significant reduction of the waste volume - and to the related cost - and to a better environment.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
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4821 Dison
Belgium