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ASPECTS RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXTILE FRACTION CONTAINED IN MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
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The European Green Pact launched a concerted strategy for a "circular", climate-neutral, resource-efficient, and resource-efficient economy. Yet globally, only about 20% of textiles are collected separately from the rest of the waste, with a truckload of textiles sent to incineration or landfill every second, and less than 1% of all textiles in the world are recycled into new textiles. In this context, the environmental impact (air, soil, water) due to the landfilling of these textile wastes is huge. In this regard, the paper addresses the issue of the post-consumer textile fraction (as the last chain link in the current linear economy) destined for municipal waste landfills, as textiles disposed of with mixed waste (TMW) in Romania. After sorting and sorting by category, the TMW textile fraction is analyzed in terms of clothing/non-clothing type, structure, and constituent fiber blend, respectively level of degradation, providing a view on the possibility of -downcycling- reuse.
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