Crystal International to embrace vision of zero operational waste to landfill
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Crystal International has made unceasing efforts to reduce operational waste generation and disposal at its global factories. It is working tirelessly to implement comprehensive waste management and put circularity into practice in order to advance toward the goal of "Zero Landfill." In order to achieve zero production waste to landfill, Crystal's sportswear factories in Vietnam and lifestyle wear factories in China diverted 100% of their production waste from landfill and incineration through recycling and waste-to-energy.
The sportswear factory in Vietnam recycled fabric waste to pillow cores and plastic powder. These recycling initiatives successfully reduced more than 125,000 kg of carbon emissions per year originated from the waste treatment and disposal. The factory also recovered energy and made use of fabric waste material for cement production by a thorough process of mixing fabric waste with cement raw materials and co-processing it at 1400°C in a cement kiln. Around 5,900kg of cement was produced by recycling over 117,000kg of waste.
The lifestyle wear factory in China established a comprehensive waste collection system which encompassed waste streams. In addition to recycling fabric waste into yarns, other waste such as sludge and food waste were recycled into bricks and fish feed respectively. To fully utilise all sorted waste, non-recyclable waste was sent to waste co-processing partner for energy recovery. In 2022, the factory diverted 3040 tonnes of solid waste from landfill.
Crystal International has been spending untiring efforts in minimizing operational waste generation and disposal in its global factories. To move ahead towards the vision of “Zero Landfill”, the Group is working relentlessly to adopt holistic waste management and put circularity into practice. Crystal’s sportswear factory in Vietnam and lifestyle wear factory in China successfully attained zero production waste to landfill by diverting 100% of its production waste away from landfill and incineration through recycling and waste-to-energy.
