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2. Nonprofit thrift store and community sew space opens in ... - AOL

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   Remnants Thrift and Sew is located at 745 Carl Eller Road, Unit A, in Mars Hill. Johnny Casey has covered Madison County for The Citizen Times and The News-Record & Sentinel for three years.

3. Cotton recycling - Wikipedia

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   Prior to recycling, the textile fabrics must be sorted by composition, and then by color to avoid redyeing. The mechanical process of producing post-consumer recycled cotton begins by removing all non-textile elements, such as zippers and buttons. [17] Then, the materials are cut into smaller pieces, suitable for subsequent shredding.

4. Textile recycling - Wikipedia

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   Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products. [1] Textile waste is split into pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and is sorted into five different categories derived from a pyramid model.

5. Recycled wool - Wikipedia

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   Recycled wool, also known as rag wool or shoddy is any woollen textile or yarn made by shredding existing fabric and re-spinning the resulting fibres. Textile recycling is an important mechanism for reducing the need for raw wool in manufacturing. Shoddy was invented by Benjamin Law of Batley in 1813.

6. Conservation and restoration of textiles - Wikipedia

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   However, as the fabrics age, the metals in the fibres accelerate their decay and cause them to become extremely brittle, an effect sped up in part by the addition of 10–15% weight in metallic salt added to some fabrics by manufacturers. This has the effect of shredding, or "shattering", the silk fibre, with the environment and conservation of ...

7. Christian leader in Lebanon urges US, allies to intervene to ...

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   The leader of a Christian coalition and political party in Lebanon is calling on the U.S. and its Western allies to deploy troops to Lebanon to help the army dismantle Hezbollah.