RECYCLED COTTON

The yarn produced with recycled cotton was born from the need to reduce pollution and as a logical response to the need to produce in a sustainable way to preserve the resources of the world in which we live. The trend in recent years is to recover as much as possible any waste generated along the supply chain, unsold collections, garments that have reached the end of their life cycle, so that they can fill again the supply chain of new products, albeit with some qualitative limitations to which the technology may eventually find appropriate solutions in the short term.

Among the most used fibers in the world for textiles in general (clothes, household linen, work clothes, etc..) there is certainly cotton. Like every agricultural crop, cotton is therefore cultivated in the fields: therefore, the greater is the quantity of material diverted from the waste stream during the textile manufacturing process that can be processed and recovered as recycled material, the greater is the part of the soil that can be used to cultivate food, necessary to feed a population growth that is not expected to slow down for at least the next fifty years, the greater is the preservation of water and the conservation of soil through a reduced use of chemicals.

Choosing recycled cotton means making an ethical and ecological choice: compared to systems for the regeneration of plastic fibers in polymers, the installation of plants to transform reclaimed material back into raw material as recycled cotton, is not normally subject to particular barriers to entry, such as dimensional constraints (minimum sizes of implants) and it is therefore possible to encourage the reuse of the waste right where it is produced reducing emissions related to the transportation of materials, thus respecting the balance of the planet in which we live and also significantly reducing the use of primary resources.

R&BIO yarns are produced with 100% pre-consumer cotton waste that is generated during the preliminary steps of the supply chain. Bcause of this, the R&BIO yarns give guarantees of blend, dyeing and relatively stable technical specifications, because it can also be mixed with virgin cotton fibers. Common regenerated yarns are instead obtained from pre-consumer waste collected during all the steps of the transformation from the virgin fiber to the finished product, where in most cases it has already been necessary to mix the different fibers (cotton, linen, viscose, polyester, etc..) and from post-consumer waste as used or unsold garments. These wastes are thus cut into small parts to be then frayed and finally used for the production of yarns generally already dyed (guaranteed only for batches), without guarantee of composition and with low technical characteristics. Since frayed fibers are often very short and stressed by intensive processes of regeneration, it is necessary to add at least a 10% of polyester blend to increase the performance in terms of strength.