Nordic textile anatomy database: Composition of garments available in the nordic retail mass market and post-consumer textile waste market

Textiles are complex materials made of multiple and blended resources, often assembled in unique configurations imbuing each textile with its own anatomy. These textile anatomies make the identification, separation, sorting, and recycling of post-consumer textiles, especially, difficult. While textile anatomy data is often retrievable for pre- and post-industrial textiles (off-cuts or rejects from manufacturing), it is often difficult to retrieve for textiles which have reached the consumer. The...