Introduction
We are constantly using resources and polluting our world. Situation gets only worse. We are using more and wasting more. Eventually, we have to take action to save our world, ourselves and be effective with our limited resources. This is when we come to recycling. Paper, plastic and glass are the common materials being recycled. But have you ever wondered about our clothes? About fiber that is also material we can not live without.
This is going to be a small insight in textile recycling. A lesson to learn about how important it is and how much you do and get, when you donate or recycle, not burn or just throw away your old sweatshirt. How it works? Click ''play'' and figure it out!
Video:
Task
You will watch a video about textile recycling. After you will have a short test about the main facts and processes.
Answer according to the video! Listen carefully, pay attention and of course - ENJOY!
Process
Questions
- How much clothing is used every year in the United States?
- How much of it is recycled?
- What are the 3 paths for donated clothing?
- How much of it is recycled at the end?
- What is the first thing that happens to the clothing when it comes to fiber conversion companies?
- How hardware is liberated from chopped material?
- What happens in the blender box?
- Where recycled fiber is used?
- What is made from recycled denim?
- What the company wants to do with the material?
- Where the company does not want the clothing to go?
Evaluation
Answers
- More than 25 million pounds
- About 15%
- Reselling, turned into wiping clothes, converted.
- About 95%
- Grading
- By magnets
- Material is mixed
- Pillow stuffing, dogs beds, stuffed animals.
- Home insolation
- Use it or re-use it in another product (turn back into a raw material)
- To the landfield
Conclusion
It is really important to think about our world and resources.
Recycling is the least we can do, when we take so much from our world.
Thank you for you work. To acknowledge is a first step to make things better!
Now you have an insight in textile recycling.
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