Specification,   Classification,  Category   .... Cotton Waste           (Compiled by: vic 12-2002)
Cotton Waste Items :
Comber Noil Waste
  (Noil=short or knotted textile fibers combed from the long staple or, sometimes, spun in with longer staple to make yarn)
Yarn Waste
 Cotton
Thread Waste
 Cotton,  Hard Blue Denim, Soft Blue Denim , (& P/C)
Fly:
 Card(Card Dropping),  Willowed (Willow Dropping),
Linters:
 Cotton 1st Cut, Cotton 2nd Cut,
Shoddy
 Shoddy 100% Cotton
Clips:
 Denim Blue Color, Hoisery (White, Bleached, Black, Colored).
Towel Waste
 Towel
Pneumafil Waste
 Cotton Pneumafil Waste
Motes Waste:
 Cotton Ginned
Rags
 Wipers
Floor Sweep
Pepper Trash... means cotton plant's leaves, stems... in small pieces.
or some bales content lots of Pepper Trash... we called that is Pepper Trash.
The more pepper Trash, the less cotton left. (said cotton content about 18%)
If you see some bales which color shows all dark brown, we may call that
grade of bale is "Pepper Trash".      Vic  12-5-2002
Textile Waste Items :
Hard waste ( mixed, polyester, viscose, cotton )
Mix count yarn ( polyester, viscose, cotton )
Mill waste ( mixed, polyester, viscose, cotton )

Cotton Wastes and Textile Wastes:
COTTON WASTE SOFT and  COTTON WASTE HARD:
Cotton, Polyester, P/C=Poly/Cotton, Viscose
Ginmotes:
 This is the waste obtained from Ginning Mills during Ginning Process of Raw cotton.
Ginning Mills
Willow Dropping:
 This is the dropping of Ginned cotton obtained from Blow room of Spinning Mills.
 Spinning Mills
Card Dropping:
 This is dropping obtained during Carding Process in the Spinning Mill.
 Spinning Mills
Card Fly:
 This is finer waste than card dropping from Carding Process.
Spinning Mills

Cotton Recycling Category:
White Cotton Clips (Benchmark)
Colored Cotton Clips
Mixed Cotton Waste
Cotton Fiber & Thread Waste
Denim Scrap

No.1 Denim Clips
Cotton Blend Clips
Scrap Cotton Blends
Other Cotton Scrap
White Cotton Clips
White Cotton Clips shall consist of clippings and must 100% cotton and 100% white, may not contain printed or colored materials.
Benchmark - White Cotton Clips are a benchmark grade on the RecycleNet Composite Index.
Colored Cotton Clips
Colored Cotton Clips shall consist of 100% cotton fabric that is printed or dyed and may not include non-cotton fibers or blends.
Mixed Cotton Waste
Mixed Cotton Waste shall consist of 100% cotton fabric that is printed or dyed and may not include non-cotton fibers or blends. Mixed cotton Waste may include assorted linen, denim, flannel, canvas, terry cloth, corduroy.
Cotton Fiber & Thread Waste
Cotton Fiber & Thread Waste shall consist of 100% cotton fibers & threads and may not contain woven materials.
Denim Scrap
Denim Scrap shall consist of common new or old white-backed blue denim and may include such common items as scrap blue jeans, overalls, jackets or blue denim trimmings.
No.1 Denim Clips
No.1 Denim Clips shall consist of sorted new or old white-backed blue denim and may not include zippers, rivets or stitching
Cotton Blend Clips
Cotton Blend Clips shall consist of clean trimmings of cotton blends such as cotton/polyester shirt clips. Cotton Blend Clips may not include whole articles of clothing with buttons, zippers or stitching. 
Scrap Cotton Blends
Scrap Cotton Blends shall consist of assorted cotton blends such as articales of cotton/polyester clothing.
Other Cotton Scrap
Other Cotton Scrap shall consist of any other cotton materials not included in the listed grades.




From Cotton Gins -

  • Gin Motes - This includes all types of gin motes such as uncleaned motes, incline cleaner processed motes, and motes processed through one or more lint cleaners. The quality of gin motes varies according to the type of cleaning and weather conditions during cotton picking.
  • Cotton Samples - This includes samples baled as is without any processing and samples run through a separator or battery condenser to produce a bat which makes the fiber worth more to consumers.
  • Off grade and Damaged Cotton - While we are not cotton merchants, we do handle many bales of damaged and lightweight cotton.

From Textile Mills -
  • Card Waste - This includes any waste fiber from the carding process. Also this can be air jet spinning waste, waste from reclaimer systems, mill motes, fly, sweeps, or Reworkable waste.
  • Thread Waste - This includes Slasher threads, Polyester/Cotton Threads, Cotton Thread waste, balled warp threads, etc.
  • Rags - Any white or colored fabric which is cotton, polyester/cotton, rayon, acrylic, etc.
  • Jute and Polypropylene Bale Wrap - This includes clear and colored plastic bags and bale wrapping, woven polypropylene bagging, and burlap bale wrapping.
Traded Cotton Waste Fibers

Textile Waste Grades:

  • Soft Cotton Threadwaste

  • Hard Cotton Threadwaste

  • Cotton Selvage

  • Soft Poly/Cotton Threadwaste

  • Hard Poly/Cotton Threadwaste

  • High Grade Card Waste and Fly

Cotton Grades

  • Linters

  • Loose Cotton

  • Raw Motes

A. Cleaned Cotton Gin Motes
 we take the cotton gin motes which have been collected at cotton gins throughout the southwestern United States, and reclean this material into a useable form. The equipment used for this process is similar to that found in cotton gins, however, we can alter the grade of the material depending on what end use product the material will be used for. In the industry, gin motes which are cleaned by a saw lint cleaner are called regins. We have the ability to run the cotton through 8 stages of saw lint cleaners. But the number of stages of cleaning depends on the needs and the characteristics of the cotton the customer desires. Our regin mote grades are used in yarn spinning, paper making, bleached cotton products, and an array of non woven materials.

Gin motes that are cleaned but not run through saw cleaners are referred to as willowed gin motes. These type grades are used in bedding and furniture products, oil absorption pads, and padding and stuffing applications.

B. Cleaned Textile Waste

We collects waste from textile mills and recleans this material into usable form. This process uses the same type equipment used in the cleaning of gin motes. The waste fiber used is predominantly the waste from the carding process in the textile mill. We also process fly, sweeps, mill motes, and various forms of reworkable waste.
& New cotton textile cutting wastes.

C. Cotton Waste Soft:-
Pneumafil, Rowing, Comber Noil, Shoddy Waste, Super Willow Fly, Willow Dropping, Cotton Linters,
Gin Motes for plating Mushroom.

D. Cotton Waste Hard:-
Cotton Yarn Waste, Hosiery Clips Grey/White/Dyed, Textile Clips, Wiping Rags Grey/White/Dyed. 

(Cotton cutting wastes)

E. Polyester Waste Soft :-
P.O.Y., Cable Tow, Polyester Staple Fiber.

F. Polyester Waste Hard:-
Off Grade Polyester Chips, Rock Waste Block/Crush/Snow White, P.T.A. Waste, PC Yarn Waste. 100% Cotton Rags, Hosiery Rags Terry Rags, Flannel Duster, Scottish Duster, Cotton Yarn Waste, Cotton Waste/Comber Noil, Pneumafil, Hosiery Clips, Combed Yarn for Knitting etc.

G. All kinds of Cotton & Polyester Waste: 

Comber, Yarn Waste, Carding Waste, Willow Fly, Gin Motes, Shoody, Cotton Linter

01. Cotton Waste for Mushroom

02. Cotton Dropping

03. Cotton Comber Noil

04. Cotton Linter

05. Cotton Card Fly

06. Cotton Supper Carding

07. Cotton Gin Motes

08. Pneumafil

09. Cotton Shoody

10. Cotton Willow Fly

11. Hosiery Cutting Clips
     White/Black/Any Color/Mixed

12. Bleached Yarn Waste

 13. Sizing Yarn Waste

14. 100% Cotton Yarn Waste Hard/Soft

15. P/C Yarn Waste Hard/Soft

16. Polyester Yarn Waste Hard/Soft

17. Polyester Cable Tow

18. Polyester Open Cable Tow

19. Polyester Snow Waste

20. Polyester POY Waste

21. Polyester Rock Waste (Stone)

22. Polyester Pop Cone Crush

23. Polyester PTA Powder

24. Polyester Waste for Mattress 


"Trash" ...............shall mean shell, shale, stick, stem, leaf, boll, seed & hull and foreign matter.

Gin Trash... all the material produced during the cleaning and ginning of seed cotton, bollies, or snapped cotton, except the cotton lint, cottonseed and cotton waste.
Cotton waste.. all waste produced from the processing of cotton at gins, cottonseed oil mills or textile mills in any form or under any trade designation. (See also Gin Trash.)
      "Waste" 
(1) Trash content
(2) Grease and oil content 
(3) Bits or scraps of cellulose wadding, paper, or other foreign matter.
(4) Variable diameter fiber.
(5) Pulp and undecorticated fiber
(6) Bits or scraps of fabric.
     (a) ''Cotton'' shall mean a vegetable seed fiber consisting of unicellular hairs attached to the seed of several species
             of the genus Gossypium of the family Malvaceae.
     (b) ''Staple'' shall mean the staple fibrous growth as removed from cottonseed in the usual process of ginning (first cut from seed).
     (c) ''Comber'' shall mean the cotton waste resulting from running card sliver through a combing machine.
     (d) ''Fly'' shall mean the cotton waste resulting when cotton is introduced to the carding machine.
     (e) ''Gin Flues'' shall mean the cotton waste resulting from staple cotton in the ginning mill.
     (f) ''Picker'' shall mean the cotton waste remaining after cotton has been run through the picker in the cotton mill.
     (g) ''Strips'' shall mean the cotton waste produced by or removed from the carding cloth following the carding process.
     (h)''Linters'' shall mean the fibrous growth resulting from the first cut of the cottonseed
           (subsequent to the usual first process of ginning) in the cotton oil mill.
     (i) ''Second Cut Linters'' shall mean the fibrous growth resulting from the second cut of cottonseed in the cotton oil mill.

Cotton Dust. Dust present in the air during the handling or processing of cotton, which may contain a mixture of many substances including ground-up plant matter and other contaminants which may have accumulated with the cotton during the growing, harvesting, and subsequent processing or storage periods. Any dust present during the handling and processing of cotton through the weaving or knitting of fabrics, and dust present in other operations or manufacturing processes using raw or waste cotton fibers or cotton fiber byproducts from textile mills are considered cotton dust within this definition. Lubricating oil mist associated with weaving operations is not considered cotton dust.

Equivalent Instrument. Cotton dust sampling device that meets the vertical elutriator equivalency requirements as described in Section 5190(d)(1)(C) of this section.

Lint-free respirable cotton dust. Particles of cotton dust approximately 15 microns or less aerodynamic equivalent diameter.

Vertical elutriator cotton dust sampler. A dust sampler which has a particle size cut-off at approximately 15 microns aerodynamic equivalent diameter when operating at the flow rate of 7.4 plus or minus 0.2 liters per minute.

Waste processing, Waste recycling (sorting, blending, cleaning and willowing) and garnetting.
Recycled Fibers'' shall mean new fibers which are the by-product resulting from a textile processing method.
Recycled cotton... We are committed to the environment, social responsibility and quality apparel. Resources and Landfills - Up to 40% of cotton is wasted between the harvesting and manufacturing of garments. Much of this cotton waste becomes solid waste in our ever expanding landfills. By recycling we conserve landfill space and the precious resources used in cotton production: land, water, energy, and person-hours.

Application:

1. PaperMaking :
   Short Fiber, Bleached cotton waste, clean, baled, hydrophytic.

2.Mushroom:



2a. Cotton waste for Mushroom (Spinning 100%)
2b. Cotton waste for Mushroom (Ginning 100%)
2c. Cotton waste for Mushroom (Spinning+Ginning)
2d. Cotton waste for Mushroom (Textile dropping)

Specification for .Mushroom Cotton Waste :
1. Existence 100% germination
2. Progressively recycled and standardized
3. Very nominal HUSK ratio
4. Most productive for high yielding
5. Average rate of productivity as much three times with in certain period

Reprocessed motes and
textile waste are used in many different industries, and put into an array of products. 

Some of the uses as follows:

Regins:

  • Various Yarn Spinning Applications

  • Paper Making

  • Automotive and Industrial Filters

  • An Array of Non Woven Products

    • Medical products (swabs,bandages)

    • Blankets

    • Diapers

  • Bleached Wadding

Willowed Motes and Textile Waste:

  • Mattress Felt Pads

  • Futon Felt Pads

  • Oil Absorption Products

  • Various Furniture Padding and Stuffing Applications

Textile Threadwaste

  • Home Furnishings

  • Padding

  • Mops

  • Wiping Cloth

Specification of Raw Cotton (sample only)...
1. Grade Box II
2. Staple 1-1/32"
3. Micron Area 3.5 to 3.6
4. Presly 85
5. Trash 7% to 8%
6. Available stock 300 bales  each  ____kgs, _____ lbs.

For Price Example 2-11-2002 EB market bulletin:  
Bleached Cotton Fiber Waste   30,000 lbs. @ $.26p/lb.

100% cotton, 750 lb bales, clean. Similar to Q-Tip Waste

Gray Cotton Cutters   45,000 lbs. @ $.13 p/lb.

100% cotton, 1000 lb bales, 2 shades

Colored Thermal Blanket Wipers   10,000 lbs. @ $.16 p/lb.

100% cotton, 1000 lb bales

Red Cotton Cutters   45,000 lbs. @ $.13 p/lb.

100% cotton, 1000 lb bales, sorted, Paperfree

Gray Cotton Cutters   45,000 Lbs. @ $.15 p/lb.

Two shades of gray, 1000 lb bales

Denim Processed Cotton waste 45,000 lbs @ $.26 p/lb.