Topic 2:
Closing the loop – Textile product end-of-life
SUPPLEMENTARY CLASSES
2.1. Post-consumer textiles (streams and management)
Presenter: Traci Kinden, Sini Ilmonen and Dolly Vellanki
Structured as a panel discussion, this class will present some day to day challenges and benefits of managing post-consumer textile flows from Residential and Commercial (uniform+laundry) sources.
Further Reading
2.2. Textile Recycling (mechanical, thermal and chemical)
Presenter: Noora Haatanen (South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Xamk)
This class functions as a in-depth analysis of the technologies described by Pirjo Heikkilä in the main class, focusing on the practicalities of recycling processes.
