Establishing the U.K. Supply Chain for Circular Cellulose; Turning Commercial Textile Waste into Viable Packaging.

英国每年产生超过80万吨消费前和商业纺织品废料，其中绝大多数最终被填埋或焚化。我们帮助企业利用这种废物流，将其转化为有价值的原材料——纤维。为此，我们在伦敦东部的工作室使用了一台定制的小型碎纸机。我们的目标是开发一个本地化的供应链，用于商业和消费前的纺织废物的再制造，过程的每个阶段都在英国境内进行。我们将回收纤维素基纺织废物（即棉花），将其转化为基于纤维的纸张和包装替代品，并将产品在最初产生废物流的同一企业内进行再循环。例如，服装制造商可以回收其消费前的纺织废料，用于成品服装的标签。我们项目的创新之处在于，整个供应链——从废物收集到纤维，再到再制造——都将完全在英国境内进行。因此，建立一个新的、本地化的供应链，并将回收的、基于纤维的包装推向市场。由纺织废料制成的类似纸张的材料已经得到证实，然而，它目前并不像我们提议的那样存在于本地供应链中，也不存在于B2B部门中。我们的创新与目前的产品不同，因为我们正在开发基于纤维的产品和材料，这些产品和材料可以为产生废物流的同一企业提供有价值的用途。本项目的主要目标包括：通过将商业纺织废料转移到垃圾填埋场和焚化炉，减少对环境的影响；通过创造新产品和新材料，建立本地化的循环经济；并创造新的收入来源，以扩大我们的业务影响，最终实现我们的目标，即消除消费前和商业纺织品废物进入垃圾填埋场。

The U.K. produces over 800,000 tons of pre-consumer and commercial textile waste every year, with the vast majority of it ending up in landfill or incinerator. We help businesses capitalise on this waste stream by turning it into a valuable raw material -- fibre. We do this through the use of a custom-built, small-scale shredding machine that is located locally in our east London studio.We aim to develop a localised supply chain for the remanufacturing of commercial and pre-consumer textile waste, with each stage of the process taking place entirely within the U.K. We will recycle cellulose based textile waste (I.e., cotton) into a fibre-based alternative to papers and packaging and will recirculate the products within the same businesses that initially produced the waste stream. For example, a garment manufacture can have its pre-consumer textile waste recycled into labelling for use on finished garments.What makes our project innovate is that the entire supply chain -- from waste collection, to fibre, to remanufacturing will all take place exclusively within the U.K. Therefore, establishing a new, localised supply chain and bringing recycled, fibre-based packaging to market. Paper-like materials made from textile waste has been proven, however, it does not currently exist within a localised supply chain, as we are proposing, or within the B2B sector. Our innovation is different to current offerings because we are developing fibre-based products and materials that can be of valuable use to the same businesses who are producing the waste stream.Our key objectives for this project include reducing environmental impact by diverting the amount of commercial textile waste sent to landfill and incinerator; establishing a localised circular economy through the creation of new products and materials; and creating new revenue streams to scale our business's impact and ultimately achieve our goal of eliminating pre-consumer and commercial textile waste from reaching landfill.