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According to the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART) and the Council for Textile Recycling [9, 10], more than 1000 businesses and organizations employing many tens of thousands of workers divert some 2 million tons of textile waste from the solid waste stream. Textile waste can be classified as either preconsumer or postconsumer. Preconsumer textile waste consists of by-product materials from the textile, fiber, and cotton industries. Each year 750,000 tons of this waste is recycled into raw materials for the automotive, furniture, mattress, coarse yam, home furnishings, paper, and other industries. Approximately 75% of the preconsumer textile waste is recycled. 

The conductive fibers pUed and or twisted with a nonconductive fiber can also form conductive yams. E-textile yams (Slade, 2014) can be made by using insulated copper wires wrapped around a cotton/nylrai/polyester core yam that demonstrates electrical and mechanical properties. The cmiductive yams and fibers are replacing traditional heavy solid or twisted wires that are too fragile and break down after repeated bends. The conductive yams and fibers are rapidly becoming the smart choice for engineers... 

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