Cheap bought the T-shirt has appeared in a large hole. What should I do? The nearest UFF:in the box is no longer an option and a mixed bag of originally epäekologista solution.

born in Finland every year tens of millions of pounds of textile waste by more effective recycling is tested in the Helsinki region environment services HSY area from the beginning of November.

a Broken and worn-out clothes and home textiles you can take Sortti-station free of charge for three months.

– Try out our collection of organizing and sorting related things as well as collected material quantities and quality, tell HSY operating chief Marjut Mäntynen release (switch to another service).

Discuss fast fashion and the waste has been heated in recent years.

the Last time this subject rose to the surface, when the Polish company opened a new fashion store in the shopping center Triplassa. Five stores opened fashion company LPP Group made a sales record Triple (you move to another service) in the mall.

Textiles are made of recycled fiber Turku

south-west Finland, Waste management is currently preparing to Turku in the test phase of the processing plant, where the households collected textiles can be processed into recycled fibre. The facility will be completed next fall. Turku to end up at least in the initial stage also the capital of the region from the collected textiles, which is suitable for plant process.

Textile reception is likely to continue in all HSY five Sortti-stations also after the experiment, but the changes after three months as paid. For example, a 200-liter bag fee is two euros.

Mäntynen according to the textile recycling demands more the fact that the material is perishable.

– It will have to be sorted to the manually, transport and temporary storage. Textile recyclability, it is important that the material remain sufficiently high throughout the treatment process. For this reason, collection is not taken against the wet, smelly or moldy textiles, he explains.

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