Contributing to the SDGs! TC-Net, "Supporting MOTTAINAI of Clothing Coordination of textile recycling foreign object removal work Started Coordination for Welfare Businesses

Textile Circular Network (TC-Net; Location: Izumiotsu City, Osaka; President: Teruo Kimura), a general incorporated association, has started coordinating foreign material removal work for welfare facilities for the physically challenged in August 2024.

What is TC-Net?

TC-Net is an organization that promotes the reuse and recycling of textile products and creates a recycling-oriented business model.

TC-Net's main objective is to contribute to the local economy and society by improving the commercial and social value of recycled textile products (upcycling), and by creating new business models and creating jobs through the creation and commercialization of necessary materials, products, and commercialization proposals. Release image 1

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Professor Emeritus Teruo Kimura of Kyoto Institute of Technology serves as chairman of the board of directors, while Kiyohiko Usutani, president of Otsu Wool Textile, and Yasunari Izumitani, president of Fiber CDM, a used clothing reuse and recycling business, serve as vice chairmen. Frontier, Yasuko Ueda Fashion College, Izumiotsu Minato Kai, Kansai Fashion Federation (KanFA), Franceya, a laundry company, and A.D., a display goods planning and production company.

The corporation has also concluded cooperative agreements with Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, and Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, for the promotion of "textile to textile" recycling and the establishment of a resource recycling system.

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■Business Activities

TC-Net coordinates the creation of new garments from collected garments.

Among other things, we are actively involved in asking welfare businesses to perform foreign object removal work, which is a pillar of textile recycling.

We are attempting to double wages for the development of textile recycling in Japan and to create a better living environment for people with disabilities by getting more welfare facilities involved in this work.

Doubling the wages of people with disabilities through textile recycling!

It is said that there are currently about 14,000 places of business for continuous employment support type B for people with disabilities throughout Japan. As of March 2020, there were approximately 270,000 users of the support for continuous employment support type B, and the national average wage (type B) is still low at approximately 17,000 yen. However, we believe that the productive capacity of people with disabilities is not like this. We hope to double wages through the removal of foreign objects in textile recycling. We would like to play a part in Japan's textile recycling by bringing together the power of welfare.

Izumiotsu Minato Kai, a social welfare corporation that actually performs foreign material removal work, recycles 7 to 10 tons of textiles per month, and the average wage before the textile recycling work began was 11,296 yen, but the average wage in FY2023 after the recycling work doubled to 25,247 yen. This is the highest average wage in Japan.

This is much higher than the average wage of 22,361 yen in Tokushima Prefecture, the prefecture with the highest average wage in Japan.

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TC-Net will coordinate the work under the following conditions.

Coordination conditions: Businesses that are willing to come to Izumiotsu City to pick up work items.

Please contact us from the contact information.

No membership in TC-Net is required.

We are looking for people who can work together to address environmental, social, and employment issues for people with disabilities. Not only will we create this consortium with the aim of responding to the problems faced by discarded clothing in terms of cost, value, and social significance, but we also ask for the cooperation of people with disabilities in the reuse and recycling process to contribute to the SDGs philosophy of "leaving no one behind. We are also looking to contribute to the creation of a society where "no one is left behind," the principle of the SDGs. We invite companies with various fields of expertise to join us and work together to solve problems.

Membership information

https://textile-c-n.com/index.php/nyukai/

Company Profile

Organization: Textile Circular Network

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President: Teruo Kimura (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Doctor of Engineering)

Location: 17-24 Asahi-cho, Izumiotsu-shi, Osaka

Establishment: April 2022

URL : https://textile-c-n.com/

MAIL : yosshin3710@gmail.com