Research and Perspectives
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Accelerating Workforce Development in the U.S. Circular Textile Economy
As the U.S. textile recycling business shifts from a linear to a circular model, industry stakeholders will face a variety of challenges: technological, structural, and resource-related. Utilizing available data and qualitative elements, this resource provides knowledge and ideas of use to business people, investors, policy planners, and social services with strategic interests in meeting the U.S. workforce challenge now coming into view.
This White Paper examines the landscape of workforce development, as related to how textile reuse/recycling jobs will affect the sector’s future growth and success, with a focus on textile-to-textile recycling’s job creation potential.
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A Report on Circular Supply Chain Potential on the U.S. East Coast
This report details the potential for circular supply chains on the East Coast of the United States. It answers the basic questions of why, what, where, who and how materials can become a part of circular, textile-to-textile recycling systems. It includes profiles of spent post-industrial and post-consumer materials, as well as of stakeholders including collectors, sorters, and preprocessors, and chemical and mechanical recyclers.
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Putting Textiles to Good Use
Learn how to join Accelerating Circularity’s commercial textile-to-textile US product trials in our latest report. We show how the trials will use post-consumer and post-industrial textiles as feedstock for recycling. The targeted output is 40% recycled post-consumer and post-industrial fiber, yarn, fabric, and ultimately product for market.
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We need pioneers who work in collection, sorting, preprocessing, recycling, yarn spinning, fabric mills, CMT, brands, and retailers.
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Modeling and Linking Report
This report proposes links and material flows in a circular textile-to-textile system. Building on our earlier research on spent textiles, collectors, sorters, preprocessors, and recyclers that showed opportunities and gaps, this report illustrates models that will be tested in forthcoming Circular Textile System Trials. Stakeholders can register their interest in System Trial participation here.