Recovering cotton fibre from UK post-consumer, mixed composition textile waste for use in paper manufacturing

James Cropper plc是一家世界级的先进材料和纸制品集团，业务遍及50多个国家。我们使用从棉花、木材到碳纤维等材料，为包装、数字成像和航空航天等行业提供性能领先的产品。在James Cropper plc，我们希望开展一个独特的创新项目，研究在造纸过程中使用替代天然纤维（来自英国消费后废物流）。我们认识到，英国是欧洲第四大纺织废料生产国，目前只有10%的纺织废料被回收利用——英国每年有超过20万吨的纺织废料被送往垃圾填埋场或焚烧。该项目将研究将英国消费后的纺织废料用作造纸和模塑纸浆工艺的原料。2019冠状病毒病大流行暴露了我们当前全球供应链的脆弱性，该项目将通过确定一种可行的英国替代纤维来替代我们目前全球采购的原始木浆，从而降低未来供应链中断的风险。

James Cropper plc is a world-class advanced materials and paper products group, with an operational reach in over 50 countries. Using materials from cotton and wood to carbon fibre we support industries from packaging to digital imaging and aerospace with products that are at the cutting edge of performance.At James Cropper plc we would like to work on a unique innovation project that studies the use of alternative natural fibres (sourced from a UK post consumer waste stream) for the papermaking process.We recognise that the UK is the fourth largest producer of textile waste in Europe with only 10% currently being recycled - More than 200,000 tonnes of UK textile waste is sent to landfill or burnt every year.The project will study the use of UK post consumer textile waste used as a raw material in papermaking and moulded pulp process.The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in our current global supply chain and this project will reduce the risk of future supply chain interruptions through the identification of a viable, UK based alternative fibre to our current, globally sourced virgin wood pulp.