Design And Fabrication Of Waste Fabric Segregation System

In textile industries, after large production of textiles like t-shirts, tracks etc., a vast amount of fabrics waste is produced along with it. These waste are called as pre-production waste in industrial terms. The fabrics waste is collected as bundle and moved further to recycling process or sometimes ends up as landfill. The bundle consist of various materials, colors and patterns of textile fabrics. It is then separated by people manually into individual bundles without any machines and then separated bundles are collected back by industries and recycled to raw material. This segregation process is a tedious and time consuming work and our motive is to automate the segregation process easier and rapidly. Our proposed solution for waste fabrics segregation consist of several levels of process. First, the waste bundle must be separated into smaller units and separation is done using mechanical setup. After dividing into smaller units, selection of particular color or pattern is done using color and image recognition sensors. The part of selection and identification process of the particular color or pattern is pre-programmed with an algorithm in the controller of the system. Finally, the respective response for separation of a particular unit is sent to the controller which is interfaced with segregating mechanical setup. Here the waste will be sorted based on color and the rest of waste which is not separated is recycled back. This way, the process of segregation is increased rapidly and done easily