Sorting with Transparency (SWT): A Reformative and Innovative Social Ecosystem for Sorting, Grading and Re-purposing of Apparel

该研究提案有四个目标：1）通过为新来者和因各种原因在常规劳动力市场挣扎的人开发新的高价值工作，进一步推进我们目前CCSIF研究计划期间开始的社会福利计划，通过合法和道德的就业平台，培训主题专家（SME）对消费后的快速时尚纺织品进行分类和分级，以便在其他市场重新利用。与依赖于恶劣工作条件和廉价劳动力的新的“绿色回收再循环”行业相比，我们的意图是一个以社会经济为重点的可持续方案，为那些可能无法从这些情况中受益的人建立自尊，提供尊重，并提供经济生计; 2）设计一个有利于社会的纺织品转移战略，该战略将采用创新的消费后废物分类、分级和再利用（SG&R）方法，并提供支持技术，旨在将西方社会的废物从国内和全球填埋场转移，并将此类废物倾倒在第三世界国家，如东非国家，这种做法损害了其本土经济、健康、环境，更重要的是，损害了其全球贸易地位; 3）通过SG&R，将影响社区的意向设计和产品开发纳入消费后纺织品废物的创新产品，例如汽车棉次品和高价值和低价值形式的生物炭，它将使用棉花劣质粉尘和切碎的纺织废料作为原料。作为其中的一部分，新产品将以这样一种方式进行品牌宣传，以提高人们对购买和处置快时尚产品的社会和环境问题的认识;及4）成立社会企业，透过SG& R，以支持分类和分级平台及其为新培训的中小企业提供的可持续就业和经济发展机会。

This research proposal has four objectives: 1) furthering the Social Benefit Program begun during our current CCSIF research program by developing new high-value jobs for newcomers and people who for various reasons are struggling in the regular labour market, through a legitimate and ethical employment platform that would train subject matter experts (SMEs) to sort and grade post-consumer fast-fashion textiles for re-purposing in other markets. In contrast with the new "green recovery-for-recycling" industry that is dependent upon poor working conditions and cheap labour, our intention is a sustainable program with a socio-economic focus that would build self-esteem, offer respect, and provide economic subsistence to persons who may not otherwise benefit from these circumstances; 2) designing a Textile Diversion Strategy for Societal Benefit which would take the form of an innovative post-consumer waste sorting, grading, and re-purposing (SG&R) methodology, with supporting technology, aimed at both the diversion of Western society's waste from domestic and global landfill, and the dumping of such waste in third-world countries such as the East African Countries (EAC), a practice detrimental to their indigenous economy, health, environment, and, more currently, their global trading status; 3) incorporating Intentional Design and Product Development that Impacts Community in the creation of innovative products from post-consumer textile waste through SG&R, such as automotive cotton shoddy, and high-and-low-value forms of biochar, which would use cotton shoddy dust and shredded textile waste as the feedstock. As part of this, the new products will be branded in such a way as to raise awareness of the social and environmental issues surrounding the purchase and disposal of fast-fashion; and 4) establishing a Social Enterprise that would sell and market the products developed from post-consumer textile waste through SG&R in order to support the sorting and grading platform and the sustainable employment and economic development opportunities it offers for the newly trained SMEs.