Article 22d › 5

Member States shall ensure that sorting operations of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products that are separately collected, including in accordance with Article 22c(8) and (11), comply with the following requirements: (a) the sorting operation is to generate textile, textile-related and footwear products for re-use and preparing for re-use, prioritising local sorting, where appropriate, and local re-use; (b) the sorting-for-re-use operations sort textile, textile-related and footwear products at an appropriate level of granularity, allowing for item-to-item sorting which separates fractions that are fit for direct re-use from those that are to be subject to further preparing for re-use operations, and target a specific re-use market applying up-to-date sorting criteria relevant to the receiving market; (c) items that are assessed as not suitable for re-use are sorted for remanufacturing and recycling including, where technological progress allows, fibre-to-fibre recycling, with a view to prioritising remanufacturing over recycling; (d) the output of sorting and subsequent recovery operations destined for re-use meet the criteria for ceasing to be considered as waste, as referred to in Article 6.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-09