Meet the team
Textile Programme Lead
Researcher, Textiles
Circle Economy’s Textile Programme aims to collectively reimagine and redesign our systems to ensure a fair and regenerative textile industry by reducing the textile waste mountain and enabling the data, technology and infrastructure needed to valorise textile waste at end-of-life at scale.
The current system to design, produce, distribute, use and dispose of textiles, clothing, leather and footwear goods operates in an almost completely linear way, exhausting both natural and human capital. Large amounts of finite resources are extracted to produce billions of new items each year, which are used for an increasingly short period of time—often ending up landfilled or incinerated.
A circular textiles industry is a system where products are consistently made, used, collected and reintroduced into the supply chain as raw materials.
Since its launch in 2014 as Circle Economy’s first sectoral programme, the Textile Programme has driven impactful projects focused on textile-to-textile recycling, circular business models, design for cyclability, technology assessments and circular infrastructure developments.
In 2024, we’re proud to release the Circularity Gap Report Textiles, offering a data-driven analysis of the industry’s circularity and identifying pathways to accelerate circular transformation. Each year, we expand our reach through collaborative, multi-year projects with our growing network of supporters and strategic partners.
Our key initiatives include: Fibersort, Sorting for Circularity Europe, Alliance for Responsible Denim, Switching Gears, Circle Fashion Tool and Circle Market.
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