Circular Textile Data Flow

Who can join

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

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

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

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