Textile Circularity

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.

Use case description

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.

Objectives

Improve transparency and economic incentives, and facilitate regulatory compliance for textile circulation through a digital network for the textile sector.

Key stakeholders and how they benefit

Brands:
Create a trusted “single source of truth” for product data that can be securely shared and reused for compliance, EPR reporting, and circular product innovation.
DPP providers:
Can offer a “collect once, use many times” data layer with automated integrations, higher credibility, and faster value beyond compliance use cases.
PROs:
Get consistent and traceable data for EPR monitoring, reduce reporting burden and double counting, support harmonised PRO reporting across countries and use key product and end-of-life information to enable more efficient decisions by all textile value chain actors and public authorities.
Tech providers for the circular textile value chain:
Turn high-quality operational data into reusable info, give users a competitive advantage by proving adoption of circular practices, and unlock operational and market insights — bolstering the activities of post-consumer value chain actors.

Partners

Partner	Country	Focus	Role
STICHTING TEXROAD	NL	Textiles	Align and report data
REVERSE RESOURCES OU	EE	Textiles	Marketplace and traceability platform
reverse.fashion GmbH	DE	Textiles	Textile sorting tech
MANGOSTONETECHNOLOGIES B.V.	NL	Textiles	Logistics and sorting software
GS1 IN EUROPE	BE	Standards	Identifiers and product codes
ERION COMPLIANCEORGANIZATION SCARL	IT	PROs	Textiles, WEEE, packaging and more
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALEDELLE RICERCHE	IT	Public institutions and research partners	Digital expertise and local support in IT
CENTRAAL BUREAUVOOR DE STATISTIEK	NL	Public institutions and research partners	Statistics and reporting methodologies
AVERY DENNISON ATMAGMBH	AT	Textiles	DPPs

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 of Extended Producer Responsibility fees implementation; decision-making for textile sorting and end-of-life management; connecting individual products to recycling feedstock batches.

2. Extended Producer Responsibility (ERP)

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.

Expected outcomes/impact

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.

Events

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