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An Overview on the Life Cycle Assessment of Building Materials Produced from Textile Waste

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Despite being an important economic sector, the textile industry contributes significantly to ecosystem pollution and necessitates prioritising waste management practices such as recycling, reuse, and reduction to mitigate its harmful environmental impacts.

Textile waste is a potential source for building materials (Buluç, Beceren Öztürk & Çahantimur, 2024). insulation materials produced from cotton waste by turning it into felt for use on roofs, insulation material for hot water pipe insulation produced from cotton and jute waste, clay bricks mixed with cotton and textile ash, gypsum board made from ethylene-vinyl acetate material produced during the cutting of boards used in the footwear industry, felt made from textile waste for vertical gardens, and acoustic wall coverings produced from recycled denim fibres are examples of building materials produced from textile waste, as demonstrated in the study of Buluç et al. (2024).

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