Quantification and composition analysis of textiles intended for re-use, recycling and disposal

Through strategic partnerships, the initiative aims to create the necessary framework for the application of circular economy principles approach the following objectives: 

-To quantify the current management routes of textiles in 3 selected EU Member States; 

-To map potential future management routes of post-consumer textiles in 3 EU Member States; 

- To generate a common understanding of textile flows across Europe, and beyond; 

-To build local capacity to lead textile quantification and characterisation studies; 

-To inform policy and investments to incentivise the transition to circular textile. 

Building on the Sorting for Circularity Europe project, and extensive experience from similar projects, such as the Interreg Fibersort project and previous textile composition analyses, this initiative is to create a scalable train-the-trainer approach replicating and expanding the tested methodology to geographies that play a strategic role in the global trade of textile waste and also are under-researched currently (central and eastern European regions). At the same time, through strategic partnerships, the initiative intends to expand the tested methodology also to include data and quality standards of textile waste managed as municipal waste (TMW).