The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Textile Recycling’s Missing Buyer

The Story: Europe generates millions of tons of used textiles, exporting over ninety percent of collected volumes due to a critical lack of domestic sorted-fiber buyers. While collection rates increase under extended producer responsibility mandates, mechanical and chemical fiber-to-fiber recycling accounts for less than one percent of total waste. Pioneering sorters and cellulose recyclers face insolvency or operational halts because brand off-take commitments fail to materialize at commercial scale. Without capital-backed buyers for sorted fractions, collected garments flow abroad into overseas markets.

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