Sorting for Circularity: Wealth in Waste

This report by Fashion for Good highlights the scope for innovative textile sorting technologies and systems to enable efficient recycling and reuse of materials. An astonishing and rather unfortunate statistic that I read in this report is that 41% of the global textile waste that makes its way to India is downcycled (19%), incinerated (5%) or ends up in a landfill (17%).

The opportunity here is vast, and startups such as Amberycle and Circ are making their mark on the global scale. In India, large textile recycling hubs such as Panipat and Tirupur remain dominant but their practices are far from innovative.