{"id":225998,"date":"2025-11-27T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/non-toxic-solvent-enables-near-perfect-recycling-of-mixed-fiber-textiles"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:25:40","slug":"non-toxic-solvent-enables-near-perfect-recycling-of-mixed-fiber-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/non-toxic-solvent-enables-near-perfect-recycling-of-mixed-fiber-textiles","title":{"rendered":"Non-toxic solvent enables near-perfect recycling of mixed-fiber textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/non-toxic-solvent-enables-near-perfect-recycling-of-mixed-fiber-textiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are producing more textiles than ever before: worldwide, well over one hundred million tons of textiles are manufactured every year\u2014more than twice as much as in the year 2000. This makes it increasingly important not to simply throw away old textiles, but to recover them in an environmentally friendly way.<\/p>\n<p>That is often not easy\u2014especially when it comes to blended fabrics, such as mixtures of cotton and polyester. At TU Wien, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-07-chemical-textile-fibers-easier-recycling.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">new method<\/a> has now been developed to separate and recycle such mixed textiles efficiently\u2014in a remarkably simple way, using menthol and benzoic acid, two nontoxic substances.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0956053X25005884\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Waste Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are producing more textiles than ever before: worldwide, well over one hundred million tons of textiles are manufactured every year\u2014more than twice as much as in the year 2000. This makes it increasingly important not to simply throw away old textiles, but to recover them in an environmentally friendly way. That is often not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}