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Paving the Way to 2025

Using separate collection in 2025 as a catalyst, we work with municipalities and their textile partners to take action on textiles. These Best Practices are the basis of this program.

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Status:

Active, accepting new participants in Estonia, Finland and the Netherlands

Who can join

Local governments, ministries, textile collectors and sorters, waste managers and organizations supporting these entities

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Goals

  • Build strong partnerships for textiles and improve local pilot project results with good data

  • Learn from other municipalities and regions

  • Increase textile reuse, recycling and transparency

  • Participants also set region-specific goals

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How it works in practice

  • Kick off with 1.5-hour session, after which we: 

    • Define local and national textile needs, influences and existing data

    • Start setting a baseline for the current state of post-consumer textile management and define targets

    • Implement quarterly textile flow reporting for collectors, sorters and other textile stakeholders

  • Ongoing activities: 

    • Analyzing data and identifying trends, metrics and practices​ (locally and compared with other regions)

    • Increasing what's working, addressing challenges and measuring results over time

    • Engaging national and EU level public sector to highlight  opportunities, needs and concerns

    • ​Publishing best practices and related communications

  • Monthly check-ins to ensure the implementation is on track

  • Quarterly dashboard updates and data review

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Benefits

  • Data-driven textile collection systems and projects are more effective​

  • Monthly team sessions keep participants connected and learning from one another

  • Local authorities working together have a stronger influence at the national level

  • Collaboration across multiple regions provides broader insights

  • Transparency for citizens is only possible with good data

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