The term “textile” includes many things. First of all, clothes – this is obvious. But also shoes, carpets, curtains, beds and blankets. They were used and thrown away, left in mixed waste containers. That will change in the new year.
This is our collective production, so the more we can recover for reuse, the greater our personal contribution to saving each other from climate destruction. – Clothes that are good, suitable for use, reusable, go to people in need. It's mostly about people experiencing homelessness. And textiles, for example, blankets, towels for animal shelters – points out Monika Pawlak from the Łódź City Hall.
From January 1, we should join this joint work of textile restoration.
– From January 1, the collection of these wastes in Poznań will continue as before at municipal waste collection points, which are called “garbage” in Poznań, says Krzysztof Czechowski from the Municipal Administration Department of the Poznań City Administration.
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– 90 percent of them were immediately included in the second transaction as first-class clothes, that is, clothes that did not require any repair, – reports Marta Jarosinska from the Gdynia city office.
We use 2700 liters of water to make one shirt
Because it is possible to give new life to all fabrics – even to very damaged ones, as long as unnecessary things are not covered with everything that is mixed with garbage.
– That's why there are such machines in the laboratories, but also in the industry, so that they can restore them and have raw materials for further work, which we are all working on today, – explains Michal Puchalsky from the Textile Institute of the University Lodz. technology.
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There is something to fight for. According to statistics, every European buys 26 kilos of clothes a year and throws almost half of it in the trash. It's sad to think that it takes 2700 liters of water to produce a normal t-shirt. – The garment industry causes 20 percent of the world's water pollution, industrial water pollution, but it also throws microplastics into the oceans, – notes Aleksandra Wlodarczyk, an expert on sustainable water, the author of the website “Zwiadomy Konsument Mody”.
We must change our habits or we will drown in clothes
Only every fifth T-shirt, shoes or sweater is allocated. And only one percent of recycled clothing is used to produce more clothing. We need to change our habits before we drown in clothes.
– That's why in Europe we are all now talking about the extended responsibility of the producer, that is, the situation in which the person who produces the clothes, as well as what happens when the clothes are no longer usable, – says Pavel Marciniak. from the Ministry of Climate and Environment.
But for this you have to take the first step.
