Feasibility study of measures to incentivise improved textile waste management with a long term perspective
This report explores supportive measures for enhanced textile waste management in the EU-27, with a long-term perspective. It assesses the feasibility of three policy measures by describing their modalities and evaluating their implementation challenges, impacts and costs: (i) fiscal incentives (subsidies, grants, tax reductions), (ii) measures for enhanced separate collection, and (iii) mandatory information policies. In addition to a qualitative assessment, scenario analysis is applied to quantitatively assess the potential of the measures to improve the environmental impacts of textile waste management and to estimate e.g. additional investment needs for scaling up separate collection, sorting and fibre-to-fibre recycling. The overall results indicate that the investigated measures could support the transition towards a more sustainable textile waste management ecosystem, e.g., with greenhouse gas savings of up to 5.4 Mt CO2-eq yr-1 for the EU-27. Still, without addressing in parallel also the prevention of textile waste generation via production and consumption patterns, a climate-neutral and circular textiles sector will be hard to achieve.
MARSCHINSKI Robert;
TONINI Davide;
MILIOS Leonidas;
SOLIS Martyna;
NAPOLANO Loredana;
FOSTER Gillian;
BIGANZOLI Fabrizio;
HUYGENS Dries;
2025-06-03
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC139566
978-92-68-25159-1 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 40243,
OP KJ-01-25-146-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC139566,
10.2760/8507408 (online),
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