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Circular Textile Data Flow

Increase the speed and success of circular textiles by making data accurate, accessible, inter-operable and available in real time

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Status:

Active, accepting new partners in Europe

Who can join

Projects, digital tools and platforms, organizations managing or supporting circular textile projects

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Goals

  • Increase quality of and access to foundational textile and reverse logistics data to scale up viable circular textile solutions

  • Identify economic (dis)incentives for textile circulation

  • Improve efficiency and results of publicly funded projects

  • Pilot and launch a network for circular textile data exchange across the private and public sectors

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How it works in practice

  • We start by reviewing the activities and needs of each participant and defining the scope of our collaboration

  • Activities for textile circulation projects:

    • Access methodologies and tools for regular data collection and reporting, with information is stored in a private, secure database

    • Co-develop project-specific insights and best practices for textile circulation based on project and external data

    • Co-develop publicly available Insights, best practices and shared data sets with other TEXroad partners

  • Activities for digital tech development projects:

    • Define use cases for data access and exchange with the public and / or private sectors

    • Map data models to the TEXroad dictionary

    • Define data access, usage and exchange permissions

    • Test interoperability and integrate it

    • Exchange data based on use cases, available data, and permissions

  • All participants have the option of a quarterly working session to stay up to date on the latest data exchange possibilities and increase the value of collaboration

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Benefits

  • Save project hours with a existing methodologies, data models and tools to measure textile flows

  • Pin-point challenges and scale feasible solutions faster with comparable data and metrics

  • Improve economics of circular textiles by identifying bottlenecks in the system

  • Get one-on-one support for project-specific needs

  • Scale up the circular textile industry faster with open-access resources

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