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Clothes typically are made of mixed fibres, in particular, they contain typically elastane for better fitting. This, however, makes them difficult to recycle. For instance, only six percent of clothes thrown away in Denmark are recycled. Now a technique has been developed to break up elastane molecules and separate the material from the rest using alcohol and potassium hydroxide.

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