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It is also a price competitive and environmentally sound alternative to incineration. For every tonne of fibre produced, 2,127,500 litres of water (the equivalent of one Olympic-sized swimming pool) and 5,170 kg of CO2 (equal to that produced by driving 32,805 km in a passenger car) is saved.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The textiles industry is notorious for its global exploitation of resources and worsening environmental and health impacts. Rester projects that cumulative waste in the EU is predicted to increase from 2,290,000 tonnes in 2014 to 50,380,000 tonnes by 2035. Approximately 80% of this waste is incinerated, producing 4,122,000 tonnes worth of emissions (CO2 equivalent). For the textile industry's carbon footprint to be significantly reduced, the recovery and reuse of its materials must be pursued to decrease the sector's use of natural resources. The massive amounts of textile waste currently being produced present a viable resource opportunity.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Rester Oy is a Finnish textile recycling company specializing in recovering and processing businesses' end-of-life (EoL) textiles into new fibres and raw materials. Rester aims to provide circular solutions that improve resource efficiency and utilize textile waste to create new business opportunities.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Rester's recycling process uses advanced technology to convert textile waste into high-quality raw materials for new uses. Their process provides an environmentally responsible way for companies to dispose of their waste. 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If the contemporary globalized textile industry is to meaningfully progress toward a circular economy, then collaboration and knowledge-sharing opportunities must be facilitated at an equally global level.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>In 2019, Eco-Age began working on a project to develop a sustainable ecosystem for Armenia’s fashion and textile industry. The project, funded by the UK’s Good Governance Fund, and in partnership with Fashion Design Chamber of Armenia, explores opportunities for embedding circularity principles across the industry. The project involves a series of workshops organized by Eco-Age to facilitate collaboration and knowledge-sharing between experienced designers in the global sustainability space and Armenian textile actors. Supported by UK's Good Governance Fund, the project ran from 2019 until March of 2021. Recent workshops have featured designers, Bethany Williams, Flavia LaRocca, and Matteo Ward, who shared their personal experiences in sustainable design development, as well as entry points for embedding circularity principles across the industry. Such opportunities for exploration include raw material sourcing, capacity building for designers, and options for establishing a national textile recycling facility.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Eco-Age and the Fashion and Design Chamber of Armenia (FDC) have embarked on a year-long project to help spur the development of Armenia's sustainable textile industry. In recognition of the garment production sector's recent growth, the Armenian government views expansion of the industry as a means of promoting the country's broader economic development. Eco-Age organized a series of events for key players in Armenia's fashion industry beginning in 2019 with a workshop, \u003Cem>Basics of Sustainability,\u003C/em> for Armenian manufacturers, and a training session on \u003Cem>Responsible Materials and Key Certifications \u003C/em>led by Eco-Age's Charlotte Turner. During the project's February 5th, 2021 workshop, British and Italian designers Bethany Williams, Flavia LaRocca, and Matteo Ward shared opportunities for embedding sustainability values into business based on their own experiences in the field. Each of the designers emphasized the significance of fashion design's role from the local community level to the greater global supply chain.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>UK-based menswear designer, Bethany Williams, has worked with screen-printed recycled materials sourced from unconventional partners like toy manufacturers. Using fashion design as a socio-political tool, she promotes change in communities suffering from a lack of economic inclusion and/or stability. Willams had partnered with various charities to produce her up-cycled collections that are embedded with stories of the real people and communities behind the fabrics. A percentage of clothing sales are donated to the respective charities. The designer has also worked with female prisoners and the San Patrignano drug and alcohol rehabilitation community in Italy in the making of her \u003Cem>Women of Change\u003C/em> collection — crafted from deadstock yarns donated by Italian mills. At the Eco-Age-FDC workshop, Williams highlighted fashion as a vehicle for bringing on positive social change at the community-level. She spoke also on the opportunity that reliance on up-cycled materials creates for designers and how use of such materials ensures the uniqueness of each collection.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Flavia La Rocca's brand, DNA, centers modularity with its interchangeable and versatile pieces that can transform into tops, skirts, bags, bandeaus, etc. allowing customers to create wardrobes out of less. La Rocca retails directly to her customers, which enables a more convenient take-back system. At the Eco-Age-FDC workshop La Rocca emphasized sustainability's significance beyond materiality, noting the importance of fostering new ways of thinking, designing, producing, selling, and consuming that are capable of prioritizing people and planet. The designer also added that both brand marketing and material details are valuable communication tools for reaching the global community.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Matteo Ward, founder of WRAD, has developed non-toxic methods of treating clothing via technological innovation. He has utilized mineral dyes made from up-cycled bricks and graphite powder — two waste materials produced by tech companies. 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As discarded textiles decompose, they release methane and other harmful substances into the environment where they can degrade ecosystems and come into contact with humans, animals, and other living entities. The organization also notes that most communities in the U.S. do not have textile recycling programs. Green Tree aims to fill these service gaps by providing multiple drop-off/collection sites across New York and New Jersey, so that used and unwanted textiles may be redistributed to people, designers, and manufacturers for re-use.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Green Tree Textiles is a recycling collection service currently operating in New York and New Jersey. At their various GREEN Box locations they accept clothing, shoes, accessories, household linens, and other textiles that would otherwise end up in landfills or incinerators. With its mission to preserve the environment and support individuals who are disadvantaged or in transition, the organization repurposes clothing and textiles for re-use by those in need or by environmentally-minded manufacturers and designers.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Green Tree has built a network of GREEN Box drop-off sites at which unwanted clothing and textile items can be deposited. These items are then sorted at a warehouse in the Bronx, New York. Gently-used clothing is sent to Green Tree's local and overseas charity partners, while goods in poor condition are sold to fibers and rags manufacturers. The materials collected are kept out of the waste stream and are not shipped to overseas landfills. 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Collected materials have been reused/recovered in accordance with the waste hierarchy. The project has developed a best action model that can be implemented on a national scale to normalize residential and commercial textile collection. Such models are to be set up throughout Finland by 2023.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>KaMu collection partners include Piece of Jeans, Aura's Treasures, Recycling and shipment store Kellari, Kirppiscenter Länsikeskus and Manhattan, Kirpputori, Länsiykkönen flea, Naantali parish flea, Sokos Wiklund, Vaateapu Karderoopi, and Raspberry Farm Second Hand.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>According to Recycling Magazine, Finland produces about 100 million kilograms of textile waste annually. If the textile industry’s ecological footprint is to be significantly reduced, the recovery and reuse of its materials must be pursued as a means of reducing the sector's use and waste of natural resources. Because end-of-life textile collectors and retailers tend to search for recovery solutions on their own, often looking to partners abroad, textile flows in Finland are currently dispersed. This has caused a sufficient volume of material to escape the local recovery/recycling stream. In order to concentrate the national textile waste stream, it is essential that collections be carried out in cooperation with the country's municipal waste management companies.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Launched in 2020 by Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto (LSJH) and Fashion Finland (FAFI), the KaMu collection project is a trial collection model for end-of-life textiles in southwestern Finland. The project aims to make it easier for residents to participate in textile collection through the provision of centrally located drop-off bins at common shopping and commerce locations. 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If the textile industry’s carbon footprint is to be significantly reduced, the recovery and reuse of its materials must be pursued as a means of reducing the sector's use of natural resources. Additionally, the sorting industry generates income primarily through the sale of reusable textiles. A circular textiles system requires an end-market for those textiles which are non-reusable as well.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Finland's first industrial end-of-life (EoL) textile refinement plant, developed by Rester Oy in collaboration with Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy (LSJH), will likely open in fall of 2021. Based in Paimio, the plant is expected to process about 12,000 tonnes of EoL textiles every year — approximately 10% of Finland’s textile waste. 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Since its implementation, there has been a 13% annual increase in post-consumer textiles collection. The material recovery rate of post-consumer textiles can reach 90%, 50% of which can be directly reused. EPR policy also encourages collaboration between actors and support research and development pertaining to issues faced by both fashion producers and recyclers. In 2016, the French PRO collected €17.2 million in tariffs from fashion retailers, which has been used to support recycling organizations in promoting increased collection and recycling rates, maintain transparent material and financial flows, fund research and development projects to identify solutions for textiles producers and recyclers, and support inclusion for socially excluded workers. 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(2018), reported that fast fashion has created a demand for 80 billion new garments every year, with the U.S sending 9.5 million tonnes of textile waste to landfill, the UK sending 350,000 tonnes, and China sending 20 million tonnes. These amounts are rising. To help manage the intensifying waste streams, as well as those of other industries, policy makers and practitioners must act to close the material loop and ignite a circular economy transition that will promote maximum reuse of resources and waste prevention. The development of long-term programmes that are environmentally sound and economically viable could potentially manage the overconsumption of clothing and excessive waste generation. Such programmes must place more responsibility of collection, treatment, and recycling of EoL products on producers.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>To achieve sustainability targets, policymakers and practitioners in certain countries are introducing extended producer responsibility policy (EPR). Under such policy, producers are required to assume the costs of collection, treating, and recycling of their end-of-life products. EPR policy is generally lacking in the textiles industry, though in 2007, France was the first country to declare a legal framework for managing textile waste through EPR policy with the goal of holding textile producers responsible for the collection and recycling of end-of-use (EoU) clothing, linen, and shoes. Following France's example, other countries may follow suit and implement EPR policy as a means of managing post-consumer textiles. Without such measures and effective enforcement mechanisms to back them, producer accountability for waste management could continue to fall by the wayside.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>As of 2017, France is the only European country to have implemented an EPR framework in the textiles sector, having introduced it with \u003Cem>Article L-541-10-3 of the Code de l’Environnement \u003C/em>in 2007. 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It also monitors required sorting and recycling channels, while making collection points visible to consumers through an online interactive map, and accessible via a number of on-street collection containers, charities, and take-back collection shops. 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Its regional research will illuminate imperative gaps between the sorting and recycling industries, and the innovation, investment and policy changes needed to accelerate circular textile chains. The project's resulting open-source platform will also foster greater transparency, unity, and collaboration between these industries in the transition toward a greater circular economy.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The Sorting for Circularity Project has united brands and industry leaders across Europe, including its current partners, Circle Economy, Refashion, Laudes Foundation, Adidas, BESTSELLER, Zalando, and Inditex. It has also brought together the largest industrial textile sorters in the North-West European region, including the Boer Group, I:CO, JMP Wilcox, and TEXAID.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Though the amount of textiles being discarded increases annually, a portion of these waste products are reused and recycled. However, textile recyclers are still grappling with the outstanding challenge of material composition identification and separation. Contemporary textile sorting systems are predominantly reliant on manual processes and lack capabilities for distinguishing material content, with items often being mis-labelled or devoid of labels entirely. Solutions to this problem need to be developed at a scale which can match that of the recycling industry and the amount of textile waste being produced by society. Additionally, the sorting industry generates income primarily through the sale of reusable textiles, and so, a circular textiles system requires an end-market for those textiles which are non-reusable.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Fashion for Good launched their Sorting for Circularity Project in May of 2021 to help drive textile recycling through technological innovation. The 18 month-long project utilizes Near Infrared (NIR) technology to conduct an accurate, comprehensive textile waste analysis across Europe and maps the capabilities of textile recyclers. The project's research will aid in the creation of an open digital platform\u003Cstrong> \u003C/strong>with the ability to match textile waste from sorters to recyclers. The platform is intended to foster alignment between these stakeholders in the development of circular infrastructure.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The Sorting for Circularity Project is developing research to build the infrastructure and digital matching system needed to support the activities of sorters and recyclers. It endeavors to map the current and future capabilities of textile recyclers in Europe and conduct a comprehensive textile waste analysis using Near Infrared (NIR) technology to provide a representative snapshot of textile waste composition generated in the region. The creation and implementation of the methodology is led by Circle Economy, with support from French accredited Extended Producer Responsibility eco-organization, Refashion, to assess textile waste composition. Refashion is aligning the project with their own study in France to ensure the methodologies and findings can be standardized, compared, and implemented at scale. The research will culminate in the creation of an open digital platform capable of matching textile waste from sorters with recyclers.\u003C/p>",[649],{"name":650,"type":258,"value":650},"https://fashionforgood.com/our_news/sorting-for-circularity-fashion-for-good-launches-new-project-to-drive-textile-recycling/",[]]