Recital 26

(26) According to the European Environment Agency, currently less than 1 % of all clothing waste is used to make new clothing in a circular way. In addition, most textiles are not designed in a manner that respects circularity principles and 78 % of all textile products require disassembling before textile-to-textile recycling. In order to support and drive technological and infrastructural development as well as the push for eco-design of textiles, investments into circular textiles should be promoted for the prevention, collection, sorting, re-use and local reuse, as well as recycling and fibre-to-fibre recycling of textiles. The total amount of waste textiles generated, including clothing and footwear, home textiles, technical textiles, and post-industrial and pre-consumer waste, is estimated to be 12,6 million tonnes. This includes fractions that are discarded during textile production, at the retail stage and by households and commercial entities as waste.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.