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Title: ASPECTS RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXTILE FRACTION CONTAINED IN MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
ASPECTS RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXTILE FRACTION CONTAINED IN MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE

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Grosu Marian Catalin; Visileanu Emilia; Vladu Alina Florentina; Scarlat Razvan-Victor; Dondea Maria-Felicia
10.5593/sgem2024/5.1/s20.02
10.5593/sgem2024/5.1
1314-2704
978-619-7603-72-9
English
24
5.1
•    Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE 
•    Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
Ecology and Environmental Protection
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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This paper was realized within the JRC/SVQ/2023/MVP/0008 project called “Quantification and composition analysis of textiles intended for re-use, recycling, and disposal”, coordinated by the Joint Research Centre, European Commission and within the Core Programme within the National Research Development and Innovation Plan 2022-2027, carried out with the support of MCID, project no. 6N/2023, PN 23 26, project title "Solutii digitale inovatoare, reziliente, pentru redresarea si cresterea sustenabila a resurselor naturale terestre si acvatice, precum si pentru valorificarea resurselor energetice aeriene neconventionale” Acronym: THORR.
The publishing of this paper has been funded by the Ministry of Research and Innovation, by Program 1 – Development of the national system for R&D, Subprogram 1.2 – Institutional Performance – projects for funding excellence in R&D&I, contract no. 4PFE/30.12.2021
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