Textile-to-Board Upcycling - Developing a UK Manufacturing Demonstrator

时尚垃圾正在污染地球，每年产生的消费后垃圾超过5000万吨，其中大部分最终被填埋或在海上焚烧。在英国，我们产生了大约100万的垃圾，其中大部分出口到东非等低收入地区，这些地区没有处理这些垃圾的基础设施。这导致超过95%的时尚产品将被大规模填埋和露天焚烧。不幸的是，由于与纺织品到纺织品回收相关的技术和商业问题，今天只有不到1%的时尚垃圾被回收。为了解决这一紧迫的环境问题，我们正在扩大我们独特的纺织品到纸板回收技术的规模，以展示将英国纺织废物转化为家具和建筑应用的有价值的新材料的技术可行性。这是一个全球性的解决方案，我们的最终目标是在全球范围内消除来自垃圾填埋和焚烧的时尚垃圾。

Fashion waste is polluting the planet, over 50 million tones of post-consumer waste is generated each year, most of which ends in landfill or is incinerated off-shore. In the UK, we generate around 1 million of waste and much of this waste is exported to low income regions, such as East Africa, who do not have the infrastructure to deal it. This results in large-scale landfill and open incineration being the end-of-life outcome for over 95% of fashion products.Unfortunately today, less than 1% of fashion waste is recycled, due to technical and commercial issues associated with textile-to-textile recycling.To address this urgent environmental issue, we are scaling-up our unique textile-to-board upcycling technology to demonstrate the technical feasibility of converting a significant proposition of the UK's textile waste into valuable new materials for furniture and construction applications.This is a global solution and our ultimate aim is to eliminate Fashion waste from landfill and incineration worldwide.