Maximising Reuse and Recycling of UK Clothing ... - Oakdene Hollins

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Glossary BATC CA British Apparel and Textile Confederation Competent Authority CARE Carpet America Recovery Effort CBA Cost Benefit Analysis C&I Commercial and Industry CSR Corporate Social Responsibility DCSF Department for Children, Schools and Families Defra Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs DMT Dimethyl terephthalate EA Environment Agency EoL End of life HWRC Household Waste Recycling Centre Kg/hh/wk Kilograms per household per week LA Local Authority MRF Materials Recovery Facility MSW Municipal Solid Waste PAS Publicly Available Specification TFS Transfrontier Shipment TRA Textile Recycling Association
Executive Summary Executive summary This project was commissioned by Defra as part of the Sustainable Clothing Roadmap industry initiative. The study identifies facts and recommendations for maximising reuse and recycling of end of life UK clothing. 1 Textile collected for reuse and recycling has grown substantially in the last five years, reaching 523,000 tonnes in 2008 compared to 324,000 tonnes in 2003. At the same time the volume of textiles discarded as municipal solid waste has decreased from 1,165,000 tonnes to 1,081,000 tonnes. Hence the overall reuse and recycling rate has increased from 22% to 33% while total volumes discarded increased by 8%. UK sorting is that which is segregated to grades, not just separated from non-textiles. 2 Increased reuse and recycling over this period has been encouraged by increasing prices for used textiles, currently several hundred UK£ per tonne, such that both collectors and users of reused and recycled clothing have reported difficulty in sourcing sufficient UK clothing to meet demand. This has been exacerbated by the marked increased shipment of unsorted or partially sorted textiles to lower labour cost countries which may also be substantial markets for used textiles. Thus although international trade has been i
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