In April, textile upcycler Worn Again announced it had partnered with fashion giants H&M and Kering to test the viability of a textile-to-textile chemical-recycling technology that can separate and extract polyester and cotton from end-of-use textiles.
Under optimised condition (feed phase 100 mL of 1.06 × 10−5 mol L−1, 50 mL of 1.55 × 10−3 mol L−1 carrier, acceptor phase 100 mL of 1.0 N HNO3, equilibration time = 70 min), the textile dye waste was extracted, and the extracted dye was stripped into nitric acid.
It is enthralling that one of the earliest uses of the autoclave in scientific research was to extract sericin, perhaps reflecting the interest-driven support from silk textile manufacturers.
As a textile expert and long-term resident in Madagascar, Mr Peers had come across records of French missionaries trying to extract and harvest spider silk on the island in the late 19th century; it was their textiles that had eventually been exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exhibition.
In this study, an attempt has been made to extract natural indigo dye first time from Couroupita guianensis fruit by fermentation technique and to use the obtained dye for colouration of textiles.
Crude ligninolytic enzymes extract from Schyzohyllum commune IBL-06 having high activities of LiP (2186.02 U mL−1), MnP (1676.75 U mL−1) and laccase (259.07 U mL−1) was used for bioremediation of textile industry effluents.
Dyed textile or yarn specimens were extracted by heating 0.1 - 1 mg (0.5 – 1 cm) of yarn in 200 μL of a solution of pyridine/water/1.0 M oxalic acid in water (95:95:10) at 100°C for 15 min, as described in detail in [4], or, in earlier studies, by heating with 5% formic acid in methanol at 60°C [5].
The geothermal energy is extracted through a textile-type ground heat exchanger named "Energy Textile" that is fabricated between a shotcrete layer and guided drainage geotextile.
People use it in everything from pharmaceutical coatings to textiles, but most importantly for paper, extracting the fiber from wood pulp.
