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…
ASTRI thinks that is extremely important to set up a certification of italian recycling process with admission to practice from enterprises that are involved in recycling. ASTRI recognizes the leading role of these enterprises, in fact with the admission to practice, the exchange of goods during manifacturing would be simiplified. Nowadays the DM 264/13th October 2016 means too much bureaucracy…
ASTRI wants to make clear the different meanings of waste and textile by-product. Rubbish is the end of a material, which nobody wants to use anymore and must be destroyed (that’s what linear economy means), while textile by-product is a material that can be recycled and used again, in fact there’s at least one user inerested in it (on the…
ASTRI wants to cooperate with charitable societies in order to reuse and recycle second-hand clothes. In this way, it is possible to produce textile products as woollen textile and much more. Even this activity, that pratese district has been doing for around hundred years, needs to be supported and preserved. Moreover, a thing to underline is that professional diseases caused…
ASTRI strongly believes in its recycled textile chain, that’s why it requires different regulations and meaning of textile made by raw materials and textile made by regenerated raw materials. In addition, ASTRI doesn’t want the end of historical enterprises, that help the society to complete its working cycle with their machinery. Their disappearance would create difficulties for the textile industry.
ASTRI wants an official recognition of a trade on regenerated textile with its rules and regulations. Moreover, the society wants to build a Brand Marketing of a product made by regenerated, an important benefit for Prato’s textile industry. ASTRI is a chain that supports circular economy.
ASTRI for its textile industries, is looking for resources that allow the training of the younger generation, for workers in the production cycle, who want to join the society to recover textile materials, that is what ASTRI does from the very beginning in Prato.
Last 24th November at the “Centri Pecci” in Prato took place the recycling forum, organized by Legambiente Toscana together with Tuscany Region, the Municipal District of Prato. More than 200 people took part in the forum. The first partecipant in the forum was Simona Bonafè (member of the European Parliament). The second was the mayor Matteo Biffoni (also president of…
Prato is the world capital of the regenerated textiles. It is known by people who live in Prato and who knows a lot about textlies, but neither national nor european politicians understand it yet. From this potential the Italian Textile and Recycling Association (AsTRI) was born in Prato this 2nd August. It is a voluntary movement, born thanks to the…
