Sustainability determines our actions in increasing areas of our lives, and for the textile industry, as the 3rd largest industrial sector worldwide, it is becoming the central issue of the future. This is especially true in light of the fact that, according to a study by the Allen McArthur Foundation, the textile industry's performance record is extremely poor with a recycling rate of only 1 worldwide. The current handling of textile products manifests itself, for example, in trends such as "fast fashion", as a result of which more and more goods of increasingly poor quality are coming onto the market, thus hindering the efficient use of resources. In addition, textiles represent a demanding and not very homogeneous group of goods, with many very different materials in diverse mixtures and with thoroughly challenging additives.
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