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Accelerating Circularity: towards the implementation of textile-to-textile recycling at commercial scale
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Accelerating Circularity is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to reduce textile waste through defining a circular textile supply chain and testing textile-to-textile recycling on a commercial scale. The project is funded by textile giants such as GAP, Walmart, VF Group, Inditex, Recycletex Group, and Zalando, with Fashion for Good, Circle Economy, and SMART as collaborators.

Problem

The textile industry is currently adopting a linear system of take-make-waste, producing a huge amount of waste that is downcycled, sent to landfill, and incinerated. This linear model is responsible for undervaluing waste products that could be used as secondary raw materials and for having a negative environmental impact, such as greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution.

Solution

Accelerating Circularity aims to define a functioning, cost-effective circular textile supply chain, using textile waste as raw material and testing textile-to-textile recycling at a commercial scale. Accelerating Circularity produced a report titled "Putting Textiles to Good Use," which describes Accelerating Circularity's proposal to speed up the industry’s transition to a circular model and to scale textile-to-textile systems. The report identifies three key impacts of the transition from a linear to a circular system:

1. Environmental: recycled textiles lower GHG and water impacts.

2. Social: "nearshoring" manufacturing and used textile recycling processing can create jobs in consuming countries.

3. Economic: waste textiles used as rfeedstock can generate revenues. Mechanically and chemically, rFibre has prices similar to virgin materials.

Outcome

Accelerating Circularity is building knowledge and mapping stakeholders to create a new circular supply chain and implement textile-to-textile recycling at a commercial scale, outlining missing links. Moreover, a targeted outcome of the trials for commercial textile-to-textile products is to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits for each member of the system.

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Accelerating Circularity
Accelerating Circularity
Inditex
Inditex
GAP Inc
GAP Inc
Recover™
Recover™
Zalando
Zalando
Recycletex
Recycletex
VF Corporation
VF Corporation
FASHION FOR GOOD
FASHION FOR GOOD
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Key elements of the circular economy
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circular fashion

circular textiles

recycling

waste

Circular Economy

Circular Strategies

textile waste collection

textiles waste

chemical recycling

mechanical recycling

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