BAIZA INTERNATIONAL PLUS

Used clothing, linens and textiles by-products provide an important source of raw materials for the textile and paper manufacturing industries. Today, rags and certain vegetable fibre by-products are still used in making top-quality paper, such as that from which bank notes are made. For more than 100 years, the textile industry has economized on the use of more costly primary raw materials by recycling woollen cloth and fibres. The technique of 'pulling', in which cloth is taken apart and the fibres separated ready for respinning, has played an important role in the development of this sector. Textile recycling provides raw materials for upholstery, for filling mattresses, for wadding and other absorbent products, and for the manufacture of felt as well as fibre from which new cloth can be made.