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1. Textile recycling background
1.1 Managing limited resources
Textiles are a material that surrounds us on a daily basis. From birth to death, people are in physical contact with textiles almost 24 hours a day: in bedding, clothing, home textiles and furnishings, in transport, in healthcare, and so on. In recent years, the production and consumption of textiles has risen dramatically as a result of global population growth and rising living standards. In the clothing sector, the global textile industry produces some 80 billion new garments a year. Overproduction in the textile industry is partly driven by the fashion industry's belief that consumers need a new collection of clothes for every season. This increases the replacement rate of clothing items and the rate of textile production, and therefore waste...
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Law no. 2011-835 of July 13, 2011 to prohibit the exploration and exploitation of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon mines by hydraulic fracturing and to repeal exclusive research permits containing projects using this technique (JORF of July 14, 2011).
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Article assembly and disassembly system WO2013189956 A1
Process for producing a carded spinning yarn from textile waste EP 1995362 B1
Polymer recycling by selective dissolution WO 91/03515
Method for separating polyester and cotton in order to recycle textile waste WO 2013182801 A1
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