{"id":5850,"date":"2025-03-12T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:23:43","slug":"austrian-researchers-find-a-new-use-for-all-those-old-clothes-you-bought-from-temu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=5850","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Researchers Find A New Use For All Those Old Clothes You Bought From Temu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFast fashion,\u201d or cheap clothing made to emulate the latest trends seen on the walkway, is often criticized for its environmental impact. Besides the high consumption of water and carbon emissions (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than international flights and maritime shipping combined<\/a>), these often shoddily produced items significantly contribute to 85% of all\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2022\/the-aftermath-of-fast-fashion-how-discarded-clothes-impact-public-health-and-the-environment\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discarded textiles<\/a>that are not recycled.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the Austrian Graz University of Technology have\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tugraz.at\/en\/tu-graz\/services\/news-stories\/tu-graz-news\/singleview\/article\/forschende-der-tu-graz-verwandeln-textilabfaelle-in-papier\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">developed<\/a>\u00a0a new use for old, out-of-vogue clothes.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Thomas Harter from the Institute of Bioproducts and Paper Technology at TU Graz has created a way to recover fibers from discarded cotton-based textiles, which can be used to make paper for packaging materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/austrian-researchers-find-a-new-use-for-all-those-old-clothes-you-bought-from-temu\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFast fashion,\u201d or cheap clothing made to emulate the latest trends seen on the walkway, is often criticized for its environmental impact. Besides the high consumption of water and carbon emissions (more than international flights and maritime shipping combined), these often shoddily produced items significantly contribute to 85% of all\u00a0discarded textilesthat are not recycled. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}