Pre-consumer recycling
Pre-consumer Recycling There are generally two types of recycling post-consumer and pre-consumer. Post-consumer recycling is the most heavily practiced[citation needed] form of recycling where the materials being recycled have already passed through the consumer market and are recycled and/or re-constituted into a product for the consumer market once again. Pre-consumer recycling[contradiction] is when the materials do not reach the intended use or user (consumer), and are either discarded[contradiction] or recycled [1]. Pre-consumer recycled materials can be broken down and remade into similar or different materials, or can be sold "as is" to third party buyers who then utilize those materials for consumer products. One of the largest contributing industries to the pre-consumer recycling paradigm is the textile industry. Pre-consumer waste by-products from the textile industry include, fibers, fabrics, trims and unsold "new" garments sold to third party buyers.
According to the Council for Textile Recycling, each year 750,000 tons of textile waste is recycled (pre and post consumer) into new raw materials for the automotive, furniture, mattress, coarse yarn, home furnishings, paper and other industries [2]. Although, this amount accounts for 75% of textile waste in the United States, there is little research on textile excess produced in countries that play a larger roll in the textile production of our world today. Countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, India and/or Bangladesh.
