Textile waste recycling

Ben Brown & Ciara Doyle | Sustainability on Instagram: "Follow @goinggreenmedia for more green projects 💚 BRICKS FROM TEXTILE WASTE 👕🧱 Share this video if you want to see less textile waste going to landfill! @fab.brick upcycles textile waste into bricks of different shapes and colours. Clothes that can’t be donated, repaired, reworked, or recycled usually end up in landfill, with over 92 million tonnes of textile waste being discarded every year 😧 We watched FabBrick’s full process…

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TAPEgear creates eco-friendly tech sleeves for your laptops, tablets, and smartphones that are made from 100% textile waste from used clothing and fabrics.

There is a growing trend within the sustainability community towards upcycling, by taking waste materials and giving them purpose by turning them into something more usable. In order to prevent more waste & pollution from being created, upcycling materials is one of the best (and craftiest)

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Do you have some jersey fabric scraps that are waiting for the perfect upcycled project? You’re in luck! This tutorial will show you how to create an environmentally friendly tawashi […]

Trying out plastic grocery bags as a core for cooked baskets

#Textilerecycling is the process by which #oldclothing and other #textiles are recovered for #reuse or #materialrecovery. It is the basis for the #textilerecyclingindustry. The necessary steps in the textile recycling process involve the #donation, #collection, #sorting and #processingoftextiles, and then subsequent transportation to end users of #usedgarments, #rags or other #recoveredmaterials.

This zero-waste recycled pouf is the perfect project for using up fabric scraps from sewing, rather than sending them to landfill!

(Un)woven — Sarmite Polakova

B-Bot Clothing on Instagram: "I made this pouffe cushion by patching linen scraps together from a local clothing company, @lekadesign. Then I stuffed it with scraps from my own and others' sewing and upcycled projects. @alchemizing_fashion , @kelstitch . These pouffes are my way of reducing textile waste and not sending a single morsel of sewing leftovers to the landfill. I also stuff them with unwearable and irreparable clothes that I've received as donations. Things that won't be able to…

A finished section of a milk bag mat on top of a recently started one.