Today I've had a chance to notice that we (western societies) are sending off our textile waste to another continent, where at least some of it gets probably¹ shipped to China to be processed into felt to protect the floor when painting the walls, and then shipped back to us.
Why aren't we doing this anymore in Prato²? It could even be done by Chinese nationals, there, but at least it wouldn't travel halfway around the world and back!
¹ I have no idea whether that's the origin of that textile waste, maybe that felt was using textile waste from China itself, but still.
² an Italian town with a long tradition of textile industry, historically including textile recycling. These days it also has the second biggest community of Chinese nationals in Italy, most of them working in textile workshops, not always up to even Italian standards of workplace conditions.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Oggi ho avuto occasione di notare che noi (società occidentali) stiamo mandando i nostri scarti tessili in un altro continente, e almeno una parte di questi probabilmente¹ finisce in Cina dove ne fanno feltro per proteggere i pavimenti quando si imbiancano le pareti, e ce lo rispediscono indietro.
Perché non lo stiamo facendo più a Prato? Potrebbero pure farlo dei Cinesi a Prato, ma almeno non si fa mezzo giro del mondo e ritorno!
¹ non ho idea di quale sia l'origine di quegli specifici scarti, magari arrivavano dal mercato interno cinese, ma non cambia molto.
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in reply to (zerouno) • •@(zerouno) sì, se ne riparla periodicamente, e tra chi si fa i vestiti si tende a parlarne ancora di più.
Ma è difficile fare qualcosa che abbia veramente un effetto, come individui.
(Rammendarsi i vestiti ha tanti buoni effetti ed è un'ottima pratica da consigliarsi a prescindere, anche se difficilmente ha un vero impatto sul problema)
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Unknown parent • •@Kermode definitely
I'd expect not enough people are painting their walls to use all of the textile waste that gets produced.
Even if those felts were made of a polyester and cotton mix that probably comes from some of the worst garments for recycling (at least if one considers both the ease of recycling and the mass)