CLOTHERE is a solution for recycling clothes and textiles.
Globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is created each year and the equivalent to a rubbish truck full of clothes ends up on landfill sites every second. By 2030, we are expected as a whole to be discarding more than 134 million tonnes of textiles a year.
Globally just 12% of the material used for clothing ends up being recycled and a far bigger % ends up being incinerated, releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
What Sankei have done to help reduce this environmental burden, is to create a new recycled paper from unwanted clothes. CLOTHERE is created by crushing and combining unwanted textiles and used paper, to produce a product with an individual finish due to its natural texture and that you can see strands from the individual brandsʼ clothes blended in.
A solution to the problem of clothing disposal.
It means that clothes are present within the recycled product.
What goes in to CLOTHERE.
Clothes collated from various sources
A maximum of 60kg is recycled per batch.
*10% of mixed fibres clothes are included in every 600kg.
*Certain fibres cannot be included and ideally zips, buttons and trims should be removed.
Crushing
*Clothes crushed in to 2mm particles.
Mix with used paper
90% of used paper combined with 10% of crushed clothes
Various forms of used paper are incorporated, such as cartons and packaging
Production and paper converting
*For every 60kg recycled, this makes approximately:- 2,200～3,600 sheets sized 788 x 1091mm can be produced.
(Other sizes and weights of paper are also available).
Printing and Processing
*CLOTHERE can be used in the same way as
conventional paper, e.g., printing, embossing,
debossing etc.
*Hang tags, bags, wrapping paper, packaging etc.
