Textile Recycling Expert Survey for Industry Insights

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1. Which upcoming regulations, design standards, or policy frameworks are the most critical for your company’s future planning?*

Select between 1 and 3 choices.

Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR): Mandating durability, recyclability, and minimum recycled content in garments.

National & EU Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Schemes: Direct eco-modulated financial fees on brands based on garment recyclability.

Mandatory Digital Product Passports (DPP): Preparing supply chain data for product-level transparency and consumer tracing.

EU Waste Shipment Regulation (Revised EVOA): Restricting the export of low-grade, non-wearable textiles to non-OECD countries.

The EU Green Claims Directive (Anti-Greenwashing): Strict requirements to scientifically justify "recycled" or "circular" claims.

EU Separate Textile Collection Mandates: Adapting logistics to the massive influx of raw post-consumer textile waste.

2. What are the biggest challenges preventing your projects from scaling or achieving commercial profitability?*

Select between 1 and 3 choices.

Feedstock Quality & Composition: High volumes of complex, multi-material blends (e.g., poly-cotton, elastane) that are difficult to recycle.

Collection & Sorting Capacity: The high cost and slow scale-up of automated sorting by fiber composition and color.

Economic Viability: The premium price of recycled fibers competing with historically low-cost virgin synthetics and fast-fashion models.

Immature Recycling Technologies: A lack of commercially proven chemical recycling (depolymerization) or high-yield mechanical sorting at scale.

Trims & Hardware Contamination: High cost and labor required to remove zippers, buttons, threads, and elastomeric components.

EPR Policy Fragmentation: Unclear, non-harmonized Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations across different EU member states.

Funding & CAPEX: Difficulty securing capital or banking support to construct large-scale sorting hubs or fiber-to-fiber recycling plants.

Other (please specify below):

3. Which technological innovation or system integration holds the most immediate potential for your business over the next 2-3 years?*

Select between 1 and 2 choices.

Automated NIR & AI Sorting Systems: High-throughput sorting of post-consumer garments by exact fiber percentage and color.

Chemical De-blending & Extraction: Technologies that cleanly separate polyester and cotton fibers from blended fabrics.

Next-Gen Mechanical Recycling: Advanced tearing and carding that minimizes fiber damage and maximizes yarn length.

Smart Tracing (RFID, Digital Watermarks): Integrating machine-readable indicators into garments during manufacturing to streamline end-of-life sorting.

Chemical Depolymerization: Breaking synthetic fibers (e.g., polyester, nylon) back down into high-purity monomers.

Other (please specify below):

4. What type of real-world case study would you find most valuable to see on stage in 2027?*

Select between 1 and 2 choices.

Brand-to-Recycler Closed Loops: Successful commercial collaborations bringing a garment back to a garment.

PRO & EPR Operations: Operational models of how Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs) are redistributing eco-modulated fees to fund sorting.

Automated Sorting Hubs: Data-driven case studies on the yields, cost efficiencies, and purities of newly established regional sorting plants.

Project Failures: Honest accounts of pilot projects that faced challenges with feedstock contamination or technology adjustments.

Other (please specify below):

5. To what extent does your organisation cross over between textile circularity and plastic/packaging circularity?*

High Crossover: We process materials that touch both sectors.

Moderate Crossover: We track both areas because of shared sorting or chemical technologies, but focus primarily on textiles.

Zero Crossover: Our operations are strictly focused on textile-to-textile loops with no overlap in plastics or packaging.

(Select one)

6. Select the core topics you believe are most critical for the Textile Recycling Summit 2027 to cover:*

The Sorter's Dilemma: Unlocking economic viability for manual vs. high-speed automated sorting plants.

EPR & Compliance: Navigating the patchwork of national regulations, reporting, and eco-modulated fees.

Bridging the Feedstock Gap: How brands can secure reliable, high-purity recycled yarn in a tight market.

Design for Recyclability: Practical approaches for fashion brands to design out non-recyclable trims, linings, and material blends.

Fiber-to-Fiber at Scale: Moving chemical de-blending and mechanical recycling technologies from pilot plants to commercial operations.

DPP and Digitalization: Aligning traceability standards across brands, collectors, and recyclers.

(Select all that apply)

7. Are there any critical topics, specific industry speakers, or under-represented challenges that you believe are missing from current textile recycling event agendas?

8. Which participation format(s) would you like to consider for the 2027 Summit?

Speak: I would like to share insights on stage by presenting a case study or leading a roundtable.

Partner: I am interested in commercial opportunities such as sponsorship, exhibiting, or hosting a workshop.

Attend: I would like a standard delegate pass to attend sessions and network.

Remind Me: I am still deciding, but please keep me on the mailing list for updates.

Decline: I am unable to participate this year.

(Select all that apply)

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