Europe’s textile waste crisis is revealing major weaknesses in its shift toward circularity with mounting volumes, strained collectors and sorters, and hesitant investors. 

At the centre of the crisis is a supply-demand deadlock: low demand for recycled fibres and limited cost-competitive supply. This stalemate is stalling investments, recycling capacity, and system-wide collaboration.

Our new strategy and tactical action plan outlines how ReHubs aims to break the supply–demand deadlock to industrialise textile-to-textile recycling by 2032.