ACCELERATING CIRCULARITY LAUNCHES NEW WORKSHOP TARGETING THE KEY BARRIER TO TEXTILE CIRCULARITY: INTERNAL MISALIGNMENT
NEW YORK, NY — April 29, 2026 — Accelerating Circularity today launched Textile-to-Textile Circularity Foundations, a two-day workshop developed from its industry programs to support cross-functional alignment in textile-to-textile circularity. The program is grounded in work carried out across 28 trials in collaboration with 74 participants across 21 countries.
Designed for teams across sourcing, design, sustainability, and supply chain functions, the workshop responds to a critical shift in the industry: the move from circularity ambition to execution.
WHERE EXECUTION BREAKS DOWN
Many organizations working on textile circularity already have defined goals. The challenge is execution.
Textile-to-textile systems are complex and evolving. Teams within the same organization often operate with different assumptions about what is possible, leading to misalignment in decision-making and slowed implementation.
ALIGNING HOW TEAMS MAKE DECISIONS
The program reflects the need for alignment across design, sourcing, and supply chain functions to scale textile-to-textile systems effectively.
It focuses on current system realities in textile-to-textile circularity and provides a shared framework for how teams assess what is feasible within those systems.
The workshop draws from Accelerating Circularity’s work building textile-to-textile supply chains with industry partners, turning circularity goals into operational reality.
HOW THE WORKSHOP WORKS
The program consists of five structured modules delivered over ten hours, in-person, designed to support facilitated, applied discussion and decision-making across functions.
Topics include:
current capabilities in textile-to-textile systems
differences in how functions assess feasibility
operational trade-offs in material decisions
implications for internal alignment and decision-making
HOW ORGANIZATIONS MOVE FORWARD
Participants leave with:
shared understanding of system constraints and capabilities
alignment across functions on what is feasible today
clarity on trade-offs in sourcing and material decisions
defined next steps for internal implementation
“In my work building circular materials with players across the textile industry, I see that different teams, and even individual team members, interpret circularity differently. This misalignment slows progress. Scaling circular, T2T systems requires a shared, operational understanding across functions, along with aligned action plans. This program was built to give organizations the alignment and clarity they’ve been missing.” — Sarah Coulter, Americas Program Director, Accelerating Circularity
For media and program inquiries: info@acceleratingcircularity.org
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ABOUT ACCELERATING CIRCULARITY
Accelerating Circularity is an action-oriented nonprofit driving textile-to-textile recycling at commercial scale through a collaborative, stakeholder-led approach. Its mission is to build circular systems that transform used textiles into new raw materials, advancing a vision of a world in which textiles are no longer wasted.
Written by: Tierra Cox
