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Recycling of bast textile wastes into high value-added products: a review

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The textile industry contributes to about 5% of all waste globally, with approximately 20 billion pounds of waste landfilled every year, calling for advanced recycling methods in the context of the circular economy. Here, we review physical and chemical methods for recycling textiles waste into high value-added products such as composite reinforcements, soil covering materials, adsorbents, electrodes, supercapacitors, and nanocrystalline cellulose. Chemical recycling is more frequent than physical recycling. Product quality depends on the recycling methods; for instance chemical recycling yield materials with better porous characteristics and higher adsorption capacity than materials obtained by physical recycling. Intelligent wearables and technologies for advanced textile processing are discussed.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52073224), Textile Vision Basic Research Program of China (No. J202110), Advanced Manufacturing Technology Project of Xi'an Science and Technology Bureau (No. 21XJZZ0019), Key Research and Development Program of Xianyang Science and Technology Bureau, China (No. 2021ZDYF-GY-0035), Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China (No. 2021JQ-685), Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province, China (Nos. 2022SF-470, 2022GY-377, 2022GY-283).

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Xue Yang, Wei Fan, Hui Wang, Yang Shi, Shujuan Wang, Rock Keey Liew and Shengbo Ge were involved in writing—review and editing. Wei Fan and Shengbo Ge were involved in supervision and funding acquisition. Yang Shi and Shujuan Wang were involved in figure drawing. Wei Fan and Rock Keey Liew were involved in conceptualization. Rock Keey Liew was involved in scope planning.

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Yang, X., Fan, W., Wang, H. et al. Recycling of bast textile wastes into high value-added products: a review. Environ Chem Lett 20, 3747–3763 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-022-01484-z

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