Solutions disconnect

[rogespeed]

Seems there is a used clothing reject disposal problem in a particular enterprising country

A country that has  enthusiastically found a market for non-destructively recycling  cast offs from more western countries  

Unfortunately there is a lot of rejects , a massive amount , which is causing an environmental crisis

Sniffing around the net for less than a minute i blundered on this site that describes a chemical process  in development that can convert cotton into various useful chemicals 

New Method to Convert Old Cotton into Glucose (azom.com)

Value adding waste of the waste 

Maybe International Rescue could diversify into project managing possible part solutions to vexing environmental problems, or even a Government pro-active think-tank  tasked with identifying and developing and or implementing solutions in a centralised manner  

[ambercat16]

Question is, how much of that discarded clothing is cotton?  And how easy/difficult is it to sort the cotton from the non-cotton.  

Regarding the clothing sent to the developing world, it sounds  like the quality of the clothing is the main issue.  They can use (and make a living from) reasonable quality items but from what the program showed, the quality of what is being sent has deteriorated considerably recently resulting in the environmental crisis.  Why?

Should the Australian and UK charities  that receive the secondhand clothing be more aware of what they are passing on?  

[rogespeed]

I think my point is that money can be made from chemical processing of non-destructive recycled used items waste fabric due to a new chemical process

As for polymer based fibre , can always be converted into petro-chemicals ( along with used worn out tyres , hint hint )

Certainly the centralised bulk storage existing at the damps would lend itself to both industrial processing 

Just need someone to connect the dots and instigate further positive research free of 1st world vested  interests inertia in favour of new garments sold only. 

Now the obvious step in topic related polymer pollution of the ocean in the great pacific plastics soup bowl is ..... but that is for another post someday 

[countessalmirena]

Clothing made from natural fibres is the future solution, with some solid research into how to make crease-resistant cotton, for example, being a tremendous opportunity.

In the meantime, recycling offers many challenges; we have to do something to avoid further contamination of the earth.

[rogespeed]

re : " In the meantime, recycling offers many challenges; we have to do something to avoid further contamination of the earth."

Hence the subject of this post topic

[4channel]

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@rogespeed wrote:

Seems there is a used clothing reject disposal problem in a particular enterprising country

A country that has  enthusiastically found a market for non-destructively recycling  cast offs from more western countries  

Unfortunately there is a lot of rejects , a massive amount , which is causing an environmental crisis

Sniffing around the net for less than a minute i blundered on this site that describes a chemical process  in development that can convert cotton into various useful chemicals 

New Method to Convert Old Cotton into Glucose (azom.com)

Value adding waste of the waste 

Maybe International Rescue could diversify into project managing possible part solutions to vexing environmental problems, or even a Government pro-active think-tank  tasked with identifying and developing and or implementing solutions in a centralised manner  

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What to do?

I remember reading once that some guy was suggesting that rubbish be dropped from high altitude into volcano. Not sure how that would go.

Did you see the doco on TV the other week where Italy's waste was being shipped to Romania and hidden there?

euobserver

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After China ban, Romania hit by illegal waste imports

Despite having the second-lowest waste-recycling rates in the EU, Romania has become overflowing with waste and garbage - most of it brought in illegally from abroad

By Cristian Gherasim
Bucharest, 22. Apr, 07:03

Despite having the second-lowest waste-recycling rates in the European Union, Romania has become overflowing with waste and garbage - most of it brought in illegally from abroad.

This week, 189 tonnes of waste from Italy were discovered in the yard of a company from Bihor county, in western Romania. The country's environmental guard control established that those importing the waste had no facility to recycle it, and it would most likely will end up in illegal landfills.

Please click on the below to read further

https://euobserver.com/news/151622

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Madness!