The textile industry has the opportunity to lead a new era of prosperity—where economic growth is powered by the intelligent circulation of resources, enabling abundance, resilience, and value for people and the planet. By making data across the value chain visible, connected, and trusted, we enable shared understanding, smarter decisions, and systemic progress toward circularity.
The Textile Cluster under Green Deal Data Space brings together public and private actors—PROs, DPP providers, brands, recyclers, policymakers, and digital platforms—into a secure and connected ecosystem where textile data becomes interoperable, reusable, and a driver of effective circular action.
The SAGE (Sustainable Green Europe Data Space) project targets the four strategic pillars in the European Green Deal— Zero Pollution, Climate Adaptation, Biodiversity, and the Circular Economy Action Plan, by implementing a rich portfolio of use cases in each of them.
The project demonstrates a total of 10 pilot use cases to foster data-driven sustainability solutions across biodiversity, climate, circular economy, and pollution monitoring. Below you can read about one of these pilots.
The overview of all use cases can be found here: Use-cases
Expected outcomes
Secure data exchange for circular textiles within the Green Deal Data Space, making textile data reusable, policy monitoring — more efficient, and circular business models — profitable, keeping textile resources in circulation.
Partners
atma.io, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Erion, GS1 in Europe, MangoStone, reverse.fashion, Reverse Resources, TEXroad
Focus areas
1. Digital Product Passports (DPPs)
- Pushing post-consumer textile value chain data onto DPPs:recycled content information; certification information; Impact calculation; incorporating repair and reuse content info.
- Pull original DPP data into the post-consumer textile value chain: eco-modulation fee implementation; decision-making for textile sorting and end-of-life management; connecting individual products to recycling feedstock batches.
2. Extended Producer Responsibility
- Data harmonization and aggregation:co-developing open access EPR reporting methodology in collaboration with PROs; data aggregation between PROs for national level authorities; EU-level PRO Information System.
- Data quality, statistics and metrics: data quality checks and cross-border data validation; roadmap for statistics generation from real-time data.
Events
For upcomming and past events, please see the SAGE-project’s event calendar
Recap of past events
SAGE workshop at Circular Textile Days – September 11, 2025, Circular Textile Days in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
You can find recap from the event here
Contact
Textile use case lead:
Traci Kinden, TEXroad Foundation
email: traci@texroad.org
