I came across an article on the web about a town in Hungary that processes used clothes. It states that winter clothes, and boots are not sent to hot climate countries but are transformed into briquettes and burnt at a cement factory. OK how do you make clothing briquettes. At first I was thinking that the clothes and boots would be soaked in water binder and fed into a powerful compactor that would squeeze a cubic meter of winter clothing into a block the size of a brick. I was picturing a brick where you could see the outline of a flattened out high heel shoe embedded in it.
Then I read that a machine with iron teeth destroys the leftovers so I guess the stuff is shredded and then compacted into bricks. Here is the article.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36498061
More shoes to energy
http://sustainablog.org/2015/08/recycle ... r-burning/
cast off clothing
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