5.3.4 Chemical recycling
Course subject(s)
Module 5. Waste = Food
According to Gwen, in an ideal scenario, a cotton T-shirt could go through two or three rounds of mechanical recycling before it is regenerated by chemical recycling. This could be repeated over and over again, leading to a truly ‘circular’ T-shirt.
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