ACTR

Alliance of Chemical Recycling

ACTR brings chemical recyclers together to discuss challenges, align on opportunities, and strengthen collaboration across the sector.

Purpose

  • ‍‍Action-focused: Deliver practical outcomes like FAQs, definitions, and solutions.

  • Circularity-first: Support the textile hierarchy of reduce, reuse, repair, recycle.

  • Collaborative learning: Advance chemical recycling through member expertise, partnerships, and transparency.

  • Tackling impact: Address textile waste as a critical societal challenge.

Participants

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Objectives

  • Establish a unified industry voice on chemical recycling technologies, definitions, challenges, and policy.

  • Define and advance clear, actionable goals that drive progress across the textile-to-textile recycling sector.

ACTR Definitions and FAQs:

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ACTR FAQ’s

The Alliance of Chemical Textile Recyclers (ACTR): Definitions' from September 2023, with a logo of Accelerating Circularity in the bottom right corner.

ACTR Definitions

Overview

Accelerating Circularity brings chemical recyclers together to address shared challenges, align on opportunities, and strengthen collaboration across the sector—combining deep textile supply chain expertise with a stakeholder-led approach to deliver on textile-to-textile circularity goals.