Simon Smedinga: “Design for circularity/sustainability. Producers becoming responsible for design and discarding. So the front matches the end of the chain. Designers should be more mindful of the materials they use. Design for recycling. That excludes certain materials. You need to take into account: reusable as a garment but also as material.”

Jorik Boer: “More information for consumers would be good to understand what sorters do. That makes them better recyclers.”

Mert Ozturk: “A trade ban, forbidding unsorted items to leave the EU, would help. Secondly, some sort of subsidy from the EPR fund, because we can’t have a business case in the long run without help. Because costs are rising and quality of feedstock is decreasing.”

Jan-Maarten Zeldenrust: “Right now we believe in automated sorting. It’ll do a better job than people can in terms of identifying material compositions. New technologies need perfect feedstock material compositions. 100% cotton for instance. Automated sorting can identify this perfectly, people cannot.”

Kansen voor Rotterdam om grondstofleverancier te worden van een circulaire textielindustrie

Podcast Resetting Fashion ontrafelt de complexe textielketen door in gesprek te gaan met vier grote textiel sorteerders in de regio Rijnmond en ketenexpert Hilde van Duijn.