{"id":69,"date":"2024-06-17T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:15:53","slug":"sorting-for-recycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/?page_id=69","title":{"rendered":"Sorting for recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-shuttle-column1-1\/3 is-style-rounded\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20231227_153613-1140x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the textiles cannot be reused anymore, they can be a source for recycling. This either might be mechanical or chemical recycling. In both case the composition of the textile items need to be known. For a good recycling proces the input stream needs to be highly pure without any additional material present in the stream. So high quality sorting needs to be precise about several criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>composition of multi-materials (i.e item is cotton-poly mix in exact percentage)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>composition on multi-layer materials where threads are weaved into the material<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>detection of additive layers (i.e waterproof coatings)  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>detection of foreign obejcts like zippers or buttons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>quality aspects of the material and texture analysis <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Although several ideas and methods migth be borrowed from plastic sorting, the variation in textiles is an order of magnitude higher. Due to differences in texture and weaving sensors for infrared material composition may differ in readout leading to misclassification. Other fraction like elastane might be so tiny and deep in the threads that these are unseen. At the same time the capability of sensor technology has grown massively and of course AI can be used to find pattern in the data to classify the items. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the textiles cannot be reused anymore, they can be a source for recycling. This either might be mechanical or chemical recycling. In both case the composition of the textile items need to be known. For a good recycling proces the input stream needs to be highly pure without any additional material present in the<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/?page_id=69\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilemining.eco\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}