Wiping products have been used for various purposes through the ages. As their needs evolved, so did the product and, thus, the rich history of wiping products was developed.
In an age of environmental crisis, textiles pose a threat to the growing landfills all over the world. The average Australian buys an average of 27 kilograms in textiles every year, only to discard 23 kilograms of it.
Textile recycling is the process of collecting old clothes and other textiles to reuse them by selling them to the second-hand clothing industry or to recycle them into mixed rags and cleaning cloths.
When we think of landfills, we always imagine piles of plastics spread over large spaces of land. Rarely does someone ever think of discarded clothes as a growing problem in landfills.