Recycling of Low Grade Clothing Waste - Oakdene Hollins

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© Oakdene Hollins Ltd, Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute Ltd September 2006 from the household waste stream, MSW, prior to treatment by the new technological processes such as autoclaving and pyrolysis. 7.6 Market Power Inefficiency caused by market power occurs when a market is dominated by a small number of large producers of the primary material who undermine the market for the secondary material, even if it is competitive in terms of quality and price. This is not found to be a significant factor in the textile industry. It is the falling price of new clothing alone that provides the threat to the re‐used clothing market by reducing the margins of the collectors, shops and processors. Within the secondary clothing industry there are few economies of scale that will provide collectors or processors the opportunity to expand to dominate the market. Indeed, there is evidence that short term high prices currently being enjoyed in the market have attracted a number of new entrants in collection and these are able to operate competitively with the larger and national collectors. It follows that there is insufficient market power in the hands of the larger players to influence either the prices paid for their source materials or the prices they can achieve in their markets. There is an issue with the charitable status of the second‐hand clothing retail shops. As a body, the concessions that they enjoy, such as reduced rates on their premises and volunteer labour, means that there is imperfect competition with commercial, profit based organisations. On the other hand, there is evidence that some collectors exploit the public perception that donating clothes benefits only charities by concealing the commercial nature of their business. 7.7 Potential Solutions to Market Failures Some of the potential policy interventions by national and local governments, and by the wider textile industry, directed at providing solutions to the above market failures, are covered in detail in Section 8 of this report. For Defra Page 54
© Oakdene Hollins Ltd, Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute Ltd September 2006 Volume I References 1 Baden, S., Barber, C. “The Impact of Second‐Hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries”, Oxfam, 2005 2 A. Maunder et al. “Modelling the Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Household Waste Arisings” 2005. 3 “Report by Textile Reuse and Recycling Players on the Status of the Industry in Europe”, RREUSE, June 2005 For Defra Page 55
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