GYRE: A Closed Loop Textile Recycling and Re-manufacturing Device.

Abstract

Textile Clothing is essential for humans and a part of our daily life. The main purpose of clothing is to provide protection but with affordance, clothing became the symbol of modesty and attraction giving rise to a fashion industry for which nothing is ever enough. Today, clothing industry is worth more than 1.3 Trillion USD, employing more than 300 Million workers and is the second largest polluter in the world after oil and gas. The textile industry works in a linear fashion. Its take, make, use and dispose of which is unnatural, wasteful and polluting. It has given rise to a throw-away society, influenced by consumerism, which has dropped the utilization of clothing drastically. Currently, we throw away about 80% of our end of use clothing into landfills and this clothing can be used as raw materials for the textile industry. This is where the circular Approach comes in. In a circular approach, it's about maximizing the utility of a resource while producing minimum waste. In contrast with the linear approach, it is regenerative and distributive. Circular Approach in clothing means that all the end of use clothing will be returned into the cycle to be used as raw material, reducing stress on virgin raw materials and economics of this industry. This Project intends to Design a tangible system that can help in making fashion circular.