Fashion for Good launches textile waste mapping tool | Sustainability News Europe

World of Waste, an online tool that identifies worldwide textile waste hotspots, has been released by sustainability platform Fashion for Good. Its goal is to assist turn waste into useful resources and support a more sustainable and circular fashion sector.

This online resource is designed to help innovators and recyclers find and efficiently use textile waste resources. It provides aggregated data on trash volume, content, and kind in an effort to pinpoint global hotspots for textile waste.

To develop the online tool, Fashion for Good partnered with Reverse Resources, Global Fashion Agenda, Circle Economy, and Accelerating Circularity, with financing from IDH and the Laudes Foundation.

To improve end-of-life strategies, industry activities are now concentrated on waste management, reduction, and tracking. Efforts to effectively reduce textile waste are complicated by the current dispersion of information among multiple entities.

In order to address this issue, Fashion for Good and its partners are working together to compile research findings into a single platform that provides information on waste types, compositions, and volumes while referencing the original studies. In order to empower stakeholders in the textile waste sector, users will have access to data gathering techniques, participating organisations, and planned regional studies.

The World of Waste tool connects users to well-established regional resources and identifies worldwide hotspots for textile waste. Governments can use this information to create legislation that support sustainable waste management, and recyclers can use it to source feedstock depending on certain waste stream characteristics.

Future plans call for adding more nations and waste categories to the database and improving the platform’s usefulness by adding policy data and economic insights. In order to reduce textile waste and realise its potential as a valuable resource, this project marks a shift towards a more cooperative approach.