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Textiles represent between 5% - 7% of household waste.
Recycling textiles can save up to 15 times the energy recoverable by incineration.
In order to produce 1 kg of cotton we need around 8,000 liter of water!
In that case reusing the cloth can save huge quantities of water .
Also, Textiles present particular problems in landfill. Synthetic (man-made fibres)
products do not decompose. Woollen garments do decompose, but in doing so
they produce methane, which contributes to global warming and climate change. |