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Textile collection

Gathering post-consumer garments through curbside, retail take-back and charity streams, often funded by extended-producer-responsibility fees, into unsorted bales for sorting and recycling.

Where it's used

Circular fashion: textile collection & sorting
Collection, automated sorting and fiber-to-fiber recycling of post-consumer textile waste — the infrastructure layer turning Europe's 12+ million tonnes of annual clothing waste back into new fibers under the EU Circular Textiles strategy, led by Circulose, Infinna and automated sorters, alongside honest commercial scale-up retrenchments.
fibers-textiles 6 min