Abstract: If the textiles scrap which come from the process of manufacture and consumption can’t be availably recycled, it will result in the tremendous resources waste and environmental pollution. Aiming at this problem, from the aspects of the disassembling with machine, hydrolyzing, melting, high temperature decomposing and firing, this paper summarizes the development of textile waste application on a good many fields, such as the recycled fiber spinning, nonwoven, preparing polymer composite, reinforcing concrete and soil, paper making, preparing cellulose materials , keratin materials, grain alcohol and methane, textile auxiliary and active carbon, and utilizing heat energy and etc. It provides some suggestions for the problems appearing in the process of textile waste recycle, and provides reference for the more development of textile waste recycle in China.

Key words: waste textile, disassembling with machine, hydrolyzing, melting, high temperature decomposing, firing, recovery and recycling