The evidence behind the rules.
Working notes on textile circularity: what the regulation asks for, how claims are verified today, where verification breaks, and the vocabulary we use to talk about it precisely. Written for the people who have to make it work on a sorting line.
File 0101Published 2026-07-26Updated 2026-07-27≈ 11 min read
What a textile Digital Product Passport holds
The ESPR rules, the dates, the data model and the carrier standards behind a textile Digital Product Passport, and the stock they leave uncovered.
For brands and retailersFile 0110Published 2026-07-27≈ 6 min read
The ESPR textile delegated act, tracked
Where the ESPR delegated act for textiles stands: what is already binding, what is expected in 2027, what the act will fix, and what to watch. Dated.
For everyone in the chainFile 0108Published 2026-07-27≈ 6 min read
Who sees what in a textile DPP
The public and restricted tiers of the textile DPP: what anyone can read by scanning, who can access the rest, and how the access split is enforced.
For brands and retailersFile 0109Published 2026-07-27≈ 6 min read
The textile DPP for sorters and for brands
One regime, two positions: what the textile DPP obliges brands to do, what it assumes about sorters and recyclers, and where the two must meet.
For everyone in the chainFile 0102Published 2026-07-26≈ 7 min read
How recycled content claims are verified
Mass balance, certificates and audits are how recycled content in textiles is verified today. What each one proves, and where each one breaks.
For brands and retailersFile 0103Published 2026-07-26≈ 6 min read
Fibre composition verification at line speed
Laboratory testing and NIR sensing both stop short of what a sorting line needs. The composition label every garment already carries does not.
For sorters and recyclersFile 0104Published 2026-07-26≈ 7 min read
The EPR and ESPR timeline for textile sorters
Five EU and German instruments, their dates, and what each one actually changes for a sorter, a recycler or a producer responsibility scheme.
For producer responsibility schemesFile 0106Published 2026-07-26≈ 6 min read
Chain of custody for recycled textiles
Segregation and mass balance both assume a producer at the top of the chain. Post consumer textiles do not have one. What replaces the certificate.
For producer responsibility schemesFile 0105Published 2026-07-26≈ 8 min read
A working vocabulary for verified textile claims
Verified, certified and traced are used loosely in textile circularity. The definitions we work to, and the distinctions that keep them useful.
For everyone in the chainFile 0107Published 2026-07-27≈ 6 min read
The Textile Circularity Data Index
Every public statistic on European textile waste, recycling economics and job creation in one place, each one sourced, dated and free to cite.
For everyone in the chain
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