The products supplied by the companies associated to ASTRI, which deal with second raw textile raw materials, are the result of a process of regeneration of pre-consumption textile by-products (fibrous material that comes from the process of dry and spring fraying, filandre, cimmose, cuttings of packaging, waste in general, etc.) and post-consumption (rags in general). As per ordinary industrial practice…
You might think that old suits, sweaters and socks would be destined for the bin. But one Italian company, ASTRI ( Associazione Tessile Riciclato Italiana – or the Italian Association of Recycled Textiles) is giving those old textiles new life, making new fabric from rags. The President of the organisation, Fabrizio Tesi, explains that ASTRI was born to recycle wool…