Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced the release of its “Textile Recovery in the U.S.: A Roadmap to Circularity” white paper on June 30. The white paper highlights the current state of textile waste in the U.S. and outlines a future-state system in which textiles are recovered for best and highest use.
“Textile waste in the U.S. has increased 78 percent in less than 20 years, while the waste stream as a whole only grew 10 percent in the same time frame,” Marisa Adler, RRS consultant and lead author of the white paper, says. “Only 15 percent of textile waste is diverted from landfills. Action is needed to change consumption, reduce the impact on the environment and develop models to recover these materials.”
The white paper analyzes potential causation of the increasing textile waste issue, including changing fiber composition, and examines how a sustainable recovery system evaluates collection, processing, end markets, education, policies and collaborative efforts.
Source: Waste Today Magazine
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