cotton waste

British

noun

refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material

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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

A piece of cotton waste held on a small iron wire is inserted in the tube, part of the cotton being allowed to hang down in the reservoir.

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