Sustainable yarn production using leftover fabric from apparel industries

G M Faysal; T N Sonia Azad; Md Reazuddin Repon; Md Tanjim Hossain; Mohammad Abdul Jalil

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11377

Sustainable yarn production using leftover fabric from apparel industries

Heliyon. 2022 Nov 1;8(11):e11377. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11377. eCollection 2022 Nov.

Authors

G M Faysal¹, T N Sonia Azad², Md Reazuddin Repon^{3

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5}, Md Tanjim Hossain¹, Mohammad Abdul Jalil⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Textile Engineering, Northern University Bangladesh, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh.
² Department of Public Administration, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University, Gopalgonj 8100, Bangladesh.
³ ZR Research Institute for Advanced Materials, Sherpur 2100, Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of Textile Engineering, Khwaja Yunus Ali University, Sirajganj 6751, Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų 56, LT-51424, Kaunas, Lithuania.
⁶ Department of Textile Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh.

Abstract

A huge amount of waste was generated from the apparel industries. This study aims to develop the process of producing recycled yarn from apparel waste. The apparel leftover fabric was converted to fiber, and the fiber was mixed with virgin cotton in different ratios to produce sustainable 6/1 Ne rotor yarn. The produced yarn qualities viz. count strength product (CSP), elongation percentage, total quality index (TQI) and tenacity were decreased linearly, and opposite scenario observed for thick and thin places, neps, imperfection index (IPI) and hairiness (H) attributes with increasing the amount of waste addition with virgin cotton. The leftover fabric (LOF) can be utilized to develop a sustainable yarn and to zero waste management.

Keywords: Count strength product; Hairiness; Imperfection index; Leftover fabric; Sustainable yarn.