Glossary

Fibre-to-fibre recycling turns old textiles into new fabrics, saving water and energy while reducing waste. It helps close the loop in fashion, making clothes more sustainable and eco-friendly.

Chemical textile recycling breaks down old clothes into pure fibers, enabling high-quality reuse. It cuts waste, saves resources, and supports circular fashion, making clothes eco-friendlier.

Mechanical textile recycling breaks down old fabrics into fibers to make new materials, reducing waste, saving water and energy, and supporting a circular economy by extending textile life.

The Textile Waste Hierarchy ranks actions from best to worst: prevent waste, reuse clothes, recycle fibers, recover energy, and dispose last. It guides smarter, greener textile management.

Textile sorting separates fabrics by type and quality to enable recycling or reuse, reducing waste and pollution. It supports a circular economy, saves resources, and creates local jobs.

Textile recycling turns old clothes into new products, cutting waste, saving water and energy, and reducing pollution. It supports a circular economy, helping protect the planet for the future.

Post-consumer textiles are used clothes and fabrics that can be recycled or reused, reducing waste and saving resources. Recycling them supports a circular economy and helps protect the environment.

Textile Collection Obligation means collecting old clothes to recycle or reuse them, cutting waste and pollution. It helps save resources and supports a circular, eco-friendly system.

The Revised Waste Framework Directive requires EU states to implement EPR for textiles, reduce food waste, and boost reuse and recycling, promoting a circular, sustainable economy by 2030.