BRUSSELS – A new report from the European Environment Agency that looks at Europe’s secondary market for raw materials, as part of the EU’s ambitions for a circular economy, finds the current structure for recycling textiles is not functioning well enough.
The EEA proposes several options to overcome market barriers to grow the availability of these recycled raw materials, including incentives to design products that are easier to recycle, strengthening recycling targets, increasing recycled content in new products, establishing new technical recycled standards, and using taxes to level price competition with primary raw materials.
