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cotton waste

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noun

  1. refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Renewcell produces a textile pulp made from cotton waste recycled in a chemical process, and is branded as Circulose.

From Reuters Oct. 27, 2023

Renewcell’s founding researchers, Mikael Lindstrom and Gunnar Henriksson at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, first developed the technology to process cotton waste in 2012.

From Seattle Times Dec. 12, 2022

In fact, the Trabant was made of "duroplast", a plastic reinforced with recycled cotton waste from the former Soviet Union.

From Reuters Sep. 29, 2022

In 2014 Apple and Esquel agreed to produce more sustainable uniforms using 100 metric tonnes of recycled cotton waste, the industry publication Just Style reported.

From The Guardian Aug. 10, 2020

The fact was that during the night some malicious person had placed under the front steps in the areaway of his house a barrel that had been filled with cotton waste saturated with oil.

From A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts by Nicholas Carter

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