The Thai Textile Society offers a “special visit” to The Kanchanaphisek (King’s Golden Jubilee) Storage Facilities in Pathum Thani, Friday, 30 May 2014. John Toomey, member of the Thai Textile Society and editor of ...
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The dedicated area within The Furniture Show at May Design Series will showcase no fewer than 36 hand-picked, top-quality textiles specialists displaying their latest spring collections around a central Champagne Bar. Furniture retailer ...
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The ongoing exhibit at Lancashire’s Harris Museum is offering an insight into the preservation process that goes behind keeping its sumptuous collection of historical costumes forever new. The ‘Behind the Scenes: The ...
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SCS Global Services (SCS) has issued the first gold-level certification to Designtex, a Steelcase Company, under the factsm ecolabel developed by the Association for Contract Textiles (ACT). The certification recognizes Designtex's "Gold ...
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Whilst IKEA may be famed for its flat-pack furniture, Curtains Made Simple offer a great range of cotton fabrics from the Swedish retailer that make perfect soft furnishings for the home. Constantly staying on top of modern trends, IKEA ...
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On a day normally devoted to red hearts and pink cupids, let’s talk about a partnering that yields an easy green and good action-Textile Recycling. The recycling coordinator for Delaware County, Pennsylvania values the importance of ...
Tags: Community Recycling, Textiles, Landfills
The Swarthmore Borough of Pennsylvania kicked off a new partnership with Community Recycling to encourage textile recycling and reuse while lessening landfill usage. By aligning forces, the two organizations hope to inform about the power ...
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The recycling processes of contaminated textiles, extracted from landfills and co-mingled kerbside collections, are not environmentally and economically viable, according to two UK recycling firms, I & G Cohen Limited and Axion Consulting, ...
New research from Waste and Resources Action Programme(WRAP)suggests it's time to unlock the potential economic value of discarded textiles thrown out by consumers for waste collection. The new report reveals that consumers are throwing ...
Tags: WRAP, Textile Recycling, waste collection