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<p>In June 2020, recovery solutions provider, Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), released a report evaluating the current state of textile waste in the U.S. waste stream and outlining key elements of an ideal recovery system capable of maintaining textiles' best and highest uses throughout the value chain. With their vision for a future-state system, RRS describes the path toward more sustainable and resilient materials management systems and a circular textile economy. The paper also highlights opportunities for intervention that brands, innovators, and municipalities can utilize in their own transitions from a linear business model to a circular textiles system. This road map provides guidance to stakeholders across the value chain on potential partners who can help to drive real material change in the textile waste stream at both the brand- and industry-levels.</p>