Textile waste (part 1)
Textile waste is leftover material that is deemed useless or scrappy after the end process of production of a garment. This means that any form of rubbish obtained from the cycle of creation of a fashion textile item. Knowing that clothing is made of material, there is waste involved in these stages of production. The yarning process, spinning, dyeing, cutting, sewing, wearing and disposal stage.
In this blog we shall talk about the first three process of fashion production that create waste on a large scale.
The spinning/ yarning process. (BLOW ROOM WASTE)
This is where cotton balls are sorted to make a yarn, there it produces a material called blow room waste. It is literally like how one would comb their hair and some residue is left in the teeth of comb to be displaced. This is the same thing that happens to cotton, cool, hemp etc.
Here is a look at such kind of waste.
Blow room waste from fibre, to spinning of the yarn.
Dyeing Waste
In this stage, textiles are treated with minerals and solutions to obtain specific fabric types. During this process, it is important to note that fabrics are mixed with chemicals, bleached, washed etc. This ends up in water bodies and trenches.
Sewing and cutting waste.
In sewing factories, there is a lot of leftover material during cutting into pattern pieces, there is also another problem of thread and other items like buttons, needles, pins etc. In the recent years, computerised cutting systems that cut fabric to the exact amount that is needed to make a garment. This campaign is called the #Zerowaste campaign where designers and factories use these system such as CAD Computer Aided Design.
Stripes of leftover denim material in factory. 
Textile waste in a factory
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