The big question now is whether policy can incentivize innovators to set up facilities at scale.
A woman dropping off a large bag of clothing in a metal donation bin in a parking lot in New Jersey.Done right, textile-to-textile recycling in the U.S. could unlock a $1.5 billion economic opportunity, a new report says. The problem is that clothing is currently being disposed of wrong.
“So what happens in the United States is there are big collectors, whether the charity collectors or the for-profit collectors, that collect material, and they typically don’t sort it here; they export it,” said Karla Magruder, founder of Accelerating Circularity, a New York-based nonprofit that has been successfully running cotton-based textile recycling trials in the U.S. and Europe. “In Europe, they’re sorting for domestic reuse and then they send other materials out to other countries.
Whether Americans will be able to recycle their duds the way they do plastic bottles and aluminum cans remains to be seen. Goodwill, one of Fashion for Good’s partners on the project, has trialed curbside collection for textiles, which might be more convenient for consumers but remains logistically challenging, not least because consumers clean out their closets in bursts rather than in a consistent manner, making efficient routing difficult.
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