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

这项研究建议有四个目标：1)促进在我们当前的CCSIF研究计划期间开始的社会福利计划，通过一个合法和道德的就业平台，为新来者和因各种原因在常规劳动力市场苦苦挣扎的人开发新的高价值工作，该平台将培训主题专家(SME)对消费后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。与依赖于恶劣的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计划，将建立自尊，给予尊重，并为那些否则可能无法从这些情况中受益的人提供经济生存；2)设计一项有利于社会利益的纺织品转移战略，其形式将是一种创新的消费后废物分类、分级和再利用(SG&R)方法，并配有辅助技术，目的是将西方社会的废物从国内和全球垃圾填埋场转移，并将这种废物倾倒在东非国家等第三世界国家，这一做法损害了这些国家的本土经济、健康、环境，目前还损害了它们的全球贸易地位；3)纳入对社区产生影响的意向设计和产品开发，通过SG&R利用消费后的纺织废料创造创新产品，如汽车用棉劣质，以及使用棉花劣质灰尘和纺织废料碎屑作为原料的高价值和低价值形式的生物炭。作为这项工作的一部分，新产品的品牌将提高人们对购买和处置快速时尚的社会和环境问题的认识；以及4)建立一个社会企业，通过SG&R销售和营销从消费后纺织品废料开发的产品，以支持分类和分级平台，以及它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.