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Yes; the usual route is to take the filament yarn (as it is in bullet proof jackets etc) from woven waste, then chop it down to staple fibre (short fibre in the range of a few mm to hundreds of mm but ideally for most carding operations 30 - 60mm), this staple fibre is then either reprocessed into nonwovens by carding and some form of bonding, it can also be re-spun into staple yarn and woven, alternatively it can be pulped, all these could be used as flexible products or in composites.

It does not melt but degrades somewhere around 450°C so can not be recycled that way and as yet is not being re-dissolved for spinning.

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