Studies based on life cycle assessment showed that the collection, processing, and transport of second-hand clothing has insignificant impacts on the environment in comparison to the savings that are achieved by replacing the production of new clothing.
Used clothes and other textile waste is valuable material which shouldn’t go to the landfills. Synchronized with European circular economy strategy and waste management policies recovering of this kind of wastes is more than recommended.
Eurotex Ltd. emphasizes on an efficient management of the received and generated waste. The waste management activities of Eurotex Ltd. are carried out observing the five-step hierarchy of the policy for prevention and waste management under the Waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC), namely according to the following priority:
The waste received from our waste collectors has been separated in the Sorting Unit of Eurotex Ltd.
Manual separation of waste has been performed according to the internal company standards.
The waste received from our waste collectors has been separated in the Sorting Unit of Eurotex Ltd.
Manual separation of waste has been performed according to the internal company standards.
In the initial sorting phase, the textile waste is distributed into the following groups:
Garments that can be reused as second hand clothing (non-waste) are offered for sale in Bulgaria and abroad
Cotton wipers for the Industry (non-waste)
Textile materials for energy recovery
Packages and other recyclable materials
Dispose fraction (unrecoverable materials)
Textile materials which are not appropriate for a direct re-use as clothing or wipers and another kind wastes, separated in our sorting unit, are baled and submitted to other companies for appropriate recycling/recovering.
Our criteria when choosing the companies, dealing with the subsequent treatment of the waste, is the ecofriendly, complete methods of treatment they use. The waste is submitted only to companies with which we have contracts guaranteeing the effective recovery of the materials.