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Paving the Way to 2025

Using separate collection in 2025 as a catalyst to build the lowest cost and highest value carbon neutral textile management system possible by the end of this decade

Status:

Active, accepting new partners in Estonia and the Netherlands

Who can join

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

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Goals

  • Define textile collection infrastructure needs and metrics

  • Improve publicly available data and transparency for citizens

  • Increase textile reuse and recycling while decreasing handling costs and carbon footprint

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Activities

  • Identify issues with available data​

  • Baseline the current post-consumer textile management system

  • Trace materials flows from point of collection to end point on a quarterly basis

  • Analyse data and identify trends, metrics and practices​

  • Define and implement guidelines and best practices for textile management​

  • Communicate with citizens

  • Work together in monthly team sessions

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Benefits

  • Data-driven collection systems are more effective​

  • Collaboration across multiple regions provides broader insights

  • Transparency for citizens improves participation in collection systems

  • TEXroad uses data as evidence to highlight local textile management needs at the national level on behalf of municipalities and their partners

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