Accelerating Circularity has launched a project in Europe as the company builds on its work researching, mapping, modeling and linking circular textile-to-textile systems in the United States. As per Sourcing Journal, the project Accelerating Circularity Europe has a Steering Committee representing global retail, circular supply chains and textile recycling, including DuPont Biomaterials, European Outdoor Group, GIZ, Gr3n, Inditex, Lenzing, Recover, Recyclatex Group, Reverse Resources, Texaid and Zalando.

The Steering Committee will set the strategy and make decisions for the European project. It will convene a Brand and Retailer Working Group for the development of take-back programs and circular product specifications. Select collectors, recyclers and preprocessors will comprise a Spent Textile Working Group to address challenges in collection, sorting and feedstock preparation. As in the US, the European project will unfold in phases, starting with research and mapping, and modeling and linking, and then going into trials and evaluation.

Accelerating Circularity is a collaborative industry project developed in 2019 to accelerate the textile industry’s move from linear to circular. The project aims to establish systems that will use the embedded value and resources in existing textiles for new products, reducing the millions of tons of textile waste annually going into landfills and supporting the reduction of the industry’s GHG emissions.