Pre-consumer Textile Waste

Pre-consumer Textile Waste

Pre-consumer textile waste is a waste material before it reaches to consumer (such as fabric and garment samples, overstock, fabric from the end of rolls ) or is a material that was discarded before it was ready for consumer use (such as defective printing, dying & finishing of fabrics) or is produced while items are. Post Consumer Textile Waste: The textile waste generated at various levels after usage of the finished product by end consumer and could be any clothing or household article which has been discarded or not in use for any reason like being worn out, damaged or outgrown are considered as post consumer textile waste. There is pre-consumer zero waste fashion, where brands use recycled materials and/or cut their patterns in a way that results in no textile waste. And then there is post-consumer zero waste fashion which is about using clothing and accessories that already exist through buying secondhand.

Pre-consumer Material means any material or by-product generated after the manufacture of a product but before the product reaches the consumer, such as damaged or obsolete products. The major wastes generated by this sector are fibre wastes. These include soft fibre wastes, yarn spinning (hard fibre) wastes, beaming wastes, off-cuts, packaging, spools and creals.