The European textile industry has come up with Circula-TEX to combat the issues including inefficient waste management, fractured regulations and a complex relationship with sustainability.
With the Circula-TEX, the European textile industry will aim at improvising the continent’s fragmented perspective towards textile waste. Circula-TEX, which is powered by the EU, coordinated by RINA consulting, and supported by Horizon Europe, boasts 19 partners from nine countries. These partners come from different industries, right from fashion houses to legacy manufacturers to the state-of-the-art research labs and trade associations.
All these partners will seek to launch a cohesive EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) that will work at shaping the perspective around textiles, such as how they should be labelled, designed, discarded and repurposed. Apart from managing textiles, this four-year initiative will address the issues by coming up with productive models that will put traceability and eco-designing at the most pivotal points.
Driven from a point of view of urgency with textile recycling rates at their lowest, the unified labeling system is predicted to be among the most productive outputs that Circula-TEX will feature. Apart from that, eco-design guidelines will also be a significant part of this initiative, shaped to help manufacturers future-proof their products to repair, reuse and recycle.
This initiative will focus on making circularity its most central point in the textile policy. Its partners include Global Fashion Agenda, Hugo Boss, and Texaid, Yamamay and Confindustria.
