Tellingly, the European Commission’s directive for the fashion industry is called the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. It is part of the?European Green Deal, as well as the Circular Economy Action Plan. The need to increase the rate of recycling textiles into textiles, from barely 1% today, is central to its policy. Measures in discussion span the entire lifecycle of products, from mandatory minimums for the inclusion of recycled fibres in textiles, which would be part of the?Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, to the revision of the Waste Framework Directive, with the goal of removing barriers to the creation of a transnational recycling infrastructure. 

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