Cotton waste is turning into a new cash cow for Bangladesh as it is increasingly being sold abroad although local garment exporters are in favour of retaining and recycling it. Cotton waste refers to ...

When a cotton gin is used to separate cotton fibers from their seeds, a lot of lint is produced as a waste product. Currently, much of that cotton lint is just burned or put in landfills. Thanks to ...

PAKISTAN is now increasingly exploiting commercial value of cotton waste, thanks to broader use of improved technology in ginning and cotton yarn making that allows accurate separation of bulk and ...

The export of cotton waste from Bangladesh is rising rapidly on the back of higher demand for recycled garments globally amid growing consumer awareness and their lower prices in the domestic market.

The project, led by PhD candidate Waseem Ahmed from CDU’s Research Institute for Northern Agriculture (RINA), aims to create a circular economy by using cotton crop waste to grow mushrooms. Mr Ahmed ...

COIMBATORE: With the increase in the price of waste cotton, most of the open-end (OE) mill operators have stopped its procurement from spinning mills since the second week of November. Mill operators, ...

COIMBATORE: Open-End (OE) mills stopped production from Sunday due to an increase in procurement price for waste cotton from spinning mills. The association for OE mills had announced earlier that ...