Reuse Sustainable Cotton-based Products: A Feasibility Study

Sitka是加拿大冲浪板、服装和生活方式品牌，生产探索和享受自然世界的有目的产品。Sitka的目标是激发对自然的责任感，并在保护和消费主义之间取得平衡。为了保持其领先地位，并在利用地球资源时制定回馈系统，西特卡正在寻求新的设计和材料概念，以开发下一代棉基产品。棉花是产量最大的天然纤维，2017/2018年预计产量为2535万吨，但在环境和社会影响方面并非没有争议，例如大量用水和农药的使用。为了减少每年的原棉产量，一些组织已经开始研究回收棉花作为一种解决方案。将棉花回收为增值产品会带来一些挑战，本提案旨在通过寻找创新的解决方案来解决这些挑战。英属哥伦比亚大学（UBC）在先进纤维材料实验室（AFML）拥有广泛的纤维成型设备。在这项研究中，我们建议将Sitka在棉制服装设计和生产方面的专业知识和知识与UBC AFML在纤维材料方面的专业知识和能力结合起来，探索回收棉制服装产品的可行性。

Sitka is a Canadian surfboard, clothing and lifestyle brand, manufacturing purposeful goods for exploring and**enjoying the natural world. The goal of Sitka is to inspire accountability to nature and move toward a balance**between conservation and consumerism. In order to maintain its leadership position and enact systems of**giving back when utilizing Earth's resources, Sitka is seeking new design and materials concepts for the**development of the next generation of cotton-based products. Cotton is the most abundantly produced natural**fibre with an estimated 25.35 million tonnes expected to be produced in 2017/2018, it is not without**controversy in regards to both environmental and social impact, such as extensive water use and use of**pesticides. In order to reduce the amount of virgin cotton produced each year, a few organizations have looked**into recycling cotton as a solution. There are several challenges posed by recycling cotton into value added**products and this proposal seeks to address these challenges by finding innovative solutions. The University of**British Columbia (UBC) has a wide range of fibre forming facilities in the Advanced Fibrous Materials**Laboratory (AFML). In this study, we propose to combine Sitka's expertise and knowledge in cotton apparel**design and production with the know-how and capabilities in fibrous materials in AFML at UBC to explore the**feasibility of recycling cotton-based apparel products.