To make it more sustainable the DIMATEX Company in the Czech Republic has come up with an idea of placing two kinds of textile containers in residential areas. White containers are designed for textiles which can be reused again for example as a substitute to raw materials or as alternative fuels. Whereas in red containers people can throw away clothes they no longer want to wear, and then these pieces of clothes are donated to charity.
95% of the collected textile waste are recycled in our country. Whereas textile factories are seated in the north and in the east of our country, the major textile waste recycling factory, Klatex, is in the west near Klatovy. The above mentioned Dimatex company is one of its biggest suppliers in terms of collected waste. The collected textile enters a process of cutting, shreading or tearing on separated fibers. Further, the mass originated is finalised in the form of stitched nonwoven textile. This is used for many purposes, for example as car insulations, in agriculture and since 2008 it has been used for protective clothing production.
Other recycled textile is used as various forms of upholstery or to finalize car interiors (coating the seats, making car rugs, etc.)
Remarks:
- industrial cleaning cloths are made of special absorptive material, mainly used in automotive and engineering industry
- nonprofit organizations such as International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent are societies which help people in need and dispense the collected second-hand clothes
- raw material is the basic material used to produce new textile items.
- industrial processing is one of the possibilities how to recycle and reuse materials
- alternative fuels are fuels other than petrol or diesel for powering motor vehicles.
Exploitation of animals often goes hand in hand with intensive farming practices that damage the environment as a whole.
Every year 90 million animals are killed because of their fur, 75 million of which come from fur farms with terrible conditions where certain animals are raised and bred. The most raised animal for fur is the rabbit. The CAFT (Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade) organization has made a research on how many rabbits are killed for their fur. The result is surprisingly almost 50 million every year. The other animals are for example foxes, minks or chinchillas which live in cramped wire cages, where they do not have enough space. They are often fed with expired and smelling food such as eggs or cheese.
Fortunately, fur farming is banned in the Czech Republic as well as in Germany or in the UK, however, there is a black market which handles fur.
Animals are also used to provide leather and wool and which is alarming, 30-40% raw materials produced by leather and wool- processing industry turn into waste!
Exploitation
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