Textile Recycling
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The global clothing and textile recycling market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.97% from 2017 to 2025. According to ISRI, the US textile recycling market is worth $1.15 billion annually.
That said, the U.S. EPA reported around 16 million tons of textile municipal solid waste (MSW) was generated in 2015, about 6.1% of total MSW generation. 14.2% of textile recycling was from clothing and footwear, sheets and pillowcases was 16.3% for the same year.
Nearly 14.3 million tons of textile waste generated in the U.S. gets recycled annually. Due to fast fashion the growth in clothes recycling continues to rise. In Canada, it is estimated about 10% of charitable contributions are sold in the thrift stores, while 90% of donated fabrics are going to textile recyclers. Furthermore, approximately 35% of donated clothing is made into industrial rags.
Overall, the industry is faced with expensive collection and separation sorting processes. Furthermore, there is competition for donations between organizations such as Salvation Army Goodwill, and others. To keep the industry lucrative it is key that sorting and processing are streamlined to encourage people to recycle old clothes, giving clothes to thrift organizations rather than sending the garments straight to the landfill.
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Fluent Conveyors offers many cost-effective solutions for efficiently collecting, transporting, and classifying textiles. Our goal is fast, efficient and low maintenance systems that expedite the textile waste recycling process and will run reliably as well as last a long time. This ensures you protect your overhead and gain a quick ROI. Fluent offers standard manual sorting systems from 3 man up to 12 man and beyond as well as fully custom semi-automated sorting systems. Fluent can build the system around your needs utilizing Magnetic belts, eddie currents, fines screens, optical sorters, slider bed conveyors and more. Fluent offers elite textile recycling equipment such as our slider bed and roller chain infeed conveyors for robust post sorting baler infeed applications.