Pakistan Waste Products Association

The importance of waste products for recycling and further value addition has strategic importance keeping the environment and reduction in resources globally. The composition of different wastes has varied over time, with industrial development and innovation being directly linked to waste products.

Depending upon the physical and chemical properties of waste they can be grouped into organic/inorganic wastes hazardous/non-hazardous waste. Waste products have existed since the beginning of the Industrial revolution.

Most Waste is comprised of the following materials.

• Cotton Waste

Damaged, defective or superfluous material produced by a manufacturing process: as material rejected during a textile manufacturing process and used usually for wiping away dirt and oil.

1) SORTED COTTON WASTE DROPPING

2) REFINED CLEANED COTTON WASTE

3) COTTON PHNEUMAPHIL COTTON WASTE

4) COTTON FLY WASTE

5) COTTON WASTE YARN WASTE

6) SORTED COTTON YARN WASTE

7) COMBER NOIL 100% COTTON WASTE

8) BLEACHED COTTON CARD WASTE

9) BLEACHED COMBER NOIL COTTON WASTE

10) BLEACHED COTTON KNITTING CUTTING WASTE

11) BLEACHED COTTON WOVEN WASTE

12) MIXED KNITTED CUTTING WASTE

13) COTTON DELINTERS

Textile waste can be classified as either pre-consumer or post-consumer. Pre-consumer textile waste consists of by-product materials from the textile, fiber and cotton industries. Waste is recycled into new raw materials for the automotive, furniture, mattress, coarse yarn, home furnishings, paper and other industries.

Post-consumer textile waste consists of any type of garments or household article, made of some manufactured textile that the owner no longer needs and decides to discard.

• Sugar Waste

Molasses, a waste material of sugar industries, can be converted into bio-diesel and used as a fuel in vehicles,

• Paper

Newspaper, office paper, packing materials, cardboard

• Plastic

Beverage containers, high tech waste, packing materials

• Metals

Cans, high tech waste, scrap metals, appliance, building materials

• Glass

Windows, bottles

• Food Waste and Organic Material

Leaves, peelings and scraps, soiled food, grass clippings

• Human and Animal Waste Wood

Furniture, building materials, pallets

• Waste Vegetable Ghee/Oil

Vegetable Ghee Waste collected from industrial deep fryers in potato processing plants, snack food factories and fast food restaurants.

The United States is producing in excess of 11 billion liters of waste vegetable oil annually. If all those 11 billion liters could be collected and used to replace the energetically equivalent amount of petroleum (an ideal case), almost 1% of US oil consumption could be offset.