The City of Prato is Involving its Prominent Textile Sector in its Circular Plans

The textile district of Prato is one of Italy's largest textile manufacturing districts. Therefore, the city's municipality discovered that the local industry's tradition of reusing textile scrap and wool offered a stable basis for a new circular economy strategy. Their objectives are to create a strategic network that involves all stakeholders in order to facilitate collective circular economy activities and improve circular city governance, as well as to enhance Prato's reputation as a circular city and create mutual, unified, and inclusive actions. Urban forestry is the priority of one of their first action plans on making the area more circular. The forestry project will provide textile producers an opportunity to plant trees in the city, enabling them to compensate the CO2 emissions of their production processes.