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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Seattle startup will recycle cotton – Darcy Hitchcock

Textile recycling today is basically nonexistent. Ninety-two million tons of textiles are thrown away each year. About 87 percent of all that material ends up in landfill. Less than 1 percent of the collected material becomes new garments in fiber-to-fiber recycling; most of the rest is downcycled — cut up to be used in rugs, insulation and other lesser-quality products.

While the company is based in Seattle, the recycling plant will be in South Carolina.

The facility, which will run primarily on renewable energy and have the capacity to create the equivalent of 80,000 T-shirts every year from recycled cotton clothing, is scheduled to come online by the end of 2024.

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/cotton-has-waste-problem-startup-says-it-can-solve-it

Source: Seattle startup will recycle cotton – Darcy Hitchcock

La magia y el sentido de la novela – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Construyo mis letras sobre páginas blancas, vacías y yertas. Los espacios otrora desiertos respiran la tinta que se impregna en su textura, en su piel, al trazar palabras, ideas y sentimientos, fantasías y realidades, ilusiones y pensamientos, que se reproducen y se convierten en obras, en documentos, en libros que alguien y muchos más leen. Es un deleite encontrarme todos los días con mis textos, con el arte de las palabras escritas, con la inspiración…Source: La magia y el sentido de la novela – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

खिड़की / Window  – Kaushal Kishore

 

बंद खिड़की देखकर 

मैं मायूस होकर

आगे बढ़ जाता था पहले, 

अब इंतजार कर लेता हूं थोड़ा,

क्योंकि खिड़कियां कभी कभी 

देर से भी खुलती हैं…

🪟 🪟 🪟

Earlier I used to 

move ahead disappointed, 

after seeing a closed window, 

now I wait for a while,

because sometimes 

the windows open late…

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–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: खिड़की / Window  – Kaushal Kishore