Textiles

Europe’s textile sorting and recycling industry is currently experiencing an unprecedented crisis, even more significant than during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Second-hand clothing (SHC) is stimulating billions of dollars in GDP contributions and supporting hundreds of thousands of green jobs across Europe and Africa, a new report from Oxford Economics reveals today.

Andritz supplied and recently commissioned a tearing line at Sealy Australia’s mattress manufacturing plant in Brisbane.

The used textile market is at a ‘turning point’ and requires collaboration and innovation to deliver a truly global circular economy throughout a vibrant international supply chain.

It’s estimated that around 100 billion new garments are produced globally every year, which is 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions, making the fashion industry one of the largest contributors to waste in the world.

EU Environment Ministers have adopted the Council’s position on the targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD), covering food and textile waste.

The Council of the EU has favoured the treatment of textile waste in its position on the Waste Framework Directive, while breaking its promise to reduce food waste, the environmental network Zero Waste Europe says.

Fashion for Good launches the Sorting for Circularity USA report, unveiling significant findings from the project.

Starting next year, EU Member States must put separate collection systems in place for textiles.

At IFAT, Picvisa wants to show solutions for textile and plastic recycling.

The industry responsible for sorting discarded textiles for reuse and recycling is on the brink of collapse across Eu­rope, with urgent alarms ringing from the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK.