Investigation of thermal comfort and performance properties of recycled knitted fabrics

People's demands and needs are changing rapidly under the influence of economic and technological developments. While these changes make human life easier, they also negatively affect the environment and natural resources and bring with them environmental problems and natural resource shortages. For this reason, recycling has become an increasingly important issue in the world. It is a well-known fact that recycling textile products is ecologically beneficial. However, no study has yet been conducted on how yarn and fabric performances change after recycling and this has not been shown quantitatively, creating a deficiency in the sector. In this study, in order to solve this problem, it was aimed to determine how the mechanical recycling process causes a change in the physical and thermal properties of yarns and fabrics, and the performance changes that occur were presented in numbers. Thus, it was aimed to determine the rate of performance loss and/or gain in the product caused by recycling, and to make producers and buyers more conscious about yarn and knitted fabric selection.