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市場調查報告書
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2103380
紡織品回收市場:全球市場預測,2026-2032年Textile Recycling Market - Global Forecast 2026-2032 |
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預計到 2032 年,紡織品回收市場規模將達到 89.4 億美元,年複合成長率為 5.66%。
| 主要市場統計數據 | |
|---|---|
| 基準年 2025 | 60.7億美元 |
| 預計年份:2026年 | 64億美元 |
| 預測年份:2032年 | 89.4億美元 |
| 複合年成長率 (%) | 5.66% |
隨著各國政府、品牌商、回收商和材料開發商積極應對日益嚴重的紡織廢棄物、資源枯竭和日益嚴格的環境法規,紡織品回收正成為循環時尚、永續製造和減少廢棄物的戰略支柱。這一領域涵蓋了收集、分類、再利用、機械回收、化學回收、纖維到纖維的回收、降級回收為隔熱材料材料和工業材料,以及將回收纖維重新應用於服裝、家用紡織品、汽車內飾和不織布等領域。聯合國環境規劃署(UNEP)指出,紡織業消耗大量資源並造成嚴重污染,因此循環紡織系統對於實現氣候、水資源和廢棄物目標的重要性日益凸顯。人們對生產者延伸責任制、生態設計、可追溯性和再生材料採購的日益關注,正在改變紡織品的設計、標籤、收集和加工方式。原生纖維生產帶來的環境負擔,例如用水量、化學品使用量、土地需求和溫室氣體排放,也正在影響市場需求。然而,紡織品產業仍面臨著許多結構性挑戰,包括混紡布料、氨綸摻雜、染色和後整理製程的複雜性、自動化分類能力不足、回收系統不完善以及對可靠品質標準的需求。因此,紡織品回收正從單純的廢棄物管理活動轉變為連接時尚、化學、物流、零售、市政基礎設施和先進材料的綜合價值鏈中的優先事項。
在循環經濟政策、消費者永續性的期望以及舊紡織品整個價值鏈的技術進步的推動下,紡織品回收格局正在經歷一場變革。法律規範日益強調紡織品分類、減少廢棄物掩埋、生產者責任、產品耐用性、可修復性以及回收材料的資訊揭露。在歐盟,根據與廢棄物相關的立法,紡織品分類將從2025年起成為強制性要求,這進一步凸顯了可擴展的收集、分類和處理系統的必要性。這正在加速對收集網路、數位產品護照、紡織品識別工具和預處理基礎設施的投資。機械回收仍然十分重要,尤其是在棉、羊毛和某些合成纖維的回收利用中,因為可以維持或重複利用紡織品的品質。化學回收在聚酯、纖維素纖維和混紡織物領域日益受到關注,因為它可以從複雜的廢棄物流中回收聚合物和單體,但其商業化取決於原料的純度、能源效率、溶劑管理以及成品的品質穩定性。此外,品牌和製造商正在重新設計產品,將可回收性納入考量,例如減少難以分離的輔料、限制問題混紡以及改進材料標籤。同時,轉售、維修、租賃和再利用等經營模式正在改變回收的角色,延長產品在使用壽命結束時的處置時間。這些變化正在建立一個更緊密聯繫的生態系統,在這個系統中,紡織品回收有助於實現脫碳、穩定供應、合規監管和負責任的資源管理。
人工智慧 (AI) 透過提高分類精度、營運效率、品管和可追溯性,對紡織品回收產業產生了累積的影響。利用近紅外線光譜、高光譜影像、電腦視覺和機器學習等技術的 AI 光學分類系統,能夠比單純的人工分類更準確地識別纖維成分、顏色、織物類型、雜質和產品狀況。這一點尤其重要,因為紡織廢棄物通常包含混紡物、多層結構、染料、整理劑、連結、緊固件、塗層和彈性纖維,所有這些都會影響其可回收性。 AI 還可以最佳化收集路線,分析市政和零售收集路線中的原料模式,並支援動態決策,例如對產品進行再利用、修復、機械回收、化學回收或降級回收。在加工廠,預測性維護和流程分析可以減少停機時間,提高產量,並更穩定地提升再生纖維的品質。 AI 增強的數位化可追溯性平台將產品級資料、材料護照、分類記錄和再生材料含量檢驗關聯起來,以解決「綠色清洗」問題,並增強消費者的信心。雖然人工智慧本身並非獨立解決方案,但它與機器人、先進感測器和標準化數據系統的結合,提高了擴大紡織品回收基礎設施規模的技術可行性,並加強了基於證據的循環紡織品管理。
亞太地區在紡織品回收領域扮演著核心角色,這主要得益於其大規模的紡織品生產、不斷成長的服裝消費以及對工業廢棄物和循環材料的政策關注。中國、印度、日本、韓國、澳洲和東協正在透過回收舉措、工業共存、再生聚酯生產能力以及化學和機械回收技術的創新來加強其回收生態系統。在北美,市政紡織廢棄物分流計劃、品牌回收舉措、再銷售整合以及對生產者延伸責任日益成長的監管重視,都推動了紡織品回收的進展。特別是美國和加拿大,正致力於減少掩埋量、建造循環供應鏈以及建立更完善的從再利用到回收的管道。在拉丁美洲,非正式和正式的回收網路、服裝再利用、工業紡織品回收以及巴西和墨西哥不斷擴大的永續性舉措,都為紡織品回收創造了機遇,但基礎設施的一致性、資金籌措和標準化分揀仍然是重大挑戰。歐洲是紡織品回收領域政策主導最強的地區之一,這主要得益於循環經濟行動計劃、紡織品分類要求、生態設計舉措以及減少不受控制的紡織品出口和提高國內加工能力的日益成長的壓力。在中東,海灣合作理事會(GCC)的永續發展策略、廢棄物管理現代化以及循環經濟項目正在推動市場復甦。在城市發展、旅遊業和零售業成長導致紡織廢棄物產生量增加的地區,這一趨勢尤其顯著。非洲在全球紡織品再利用趨勢和二手紡織品貿易中扮演著至關重要的角色,但它也面臨著發展本地分類、維修、增值回收和回收基礎設施的迫切需求,以便以更永續的方式管理無法使用的進口紡織品和國內消費後紡織品。
由於東協擁有強大的服裝製造業基礎、出口導向供應鏈以及日益重視永續生產的區域性舉措,其在紡織品回收領域的重要性日益凸顯。這主要得益於國際買家對可追溯再生材料、低廢棄物採購模式以及改善生產前紡織廢料處理方式的需求。海灣合作理事會(GCC)正從廢棄物再利用、循環經濟計劃、智慧城市發展以及與永續性相關的產業多元化等角度著手解決紡織品回收問題,並在收集系統、分揀中心、再生纖維在建築領域的應用以及適用於基礎設施主導經濟體的不織布織造布利用等領域看到了機遇。歐盟正在推動全球計劃,以促進紡織品循環。紡織品分類收集、生態設計、生產者延伸責任制的討論、提高產品透明度的努力以及數位產品護照的開發,正在塑造歐洲以外地區的供應商要求。金磚國家(BRICS)的重要性不言而喻,因為它們匯集了主要的紡織品生產國、消費市場和再生材料來源,對紡織品回收、再生聚酯、棉花回收以及循環製造實踐的推廣具有重大影響。七國集團正透過監管壓力、永續採購、技術創新和品牌主導的循環經濟措施來推動紡織品回收利用,同時也努力解決紡織品出口、過度消費和低價值廢棄物對環境的影響。北約成員國與多個先進政策和工業市場重疊,在這些地區,供應鏈韌性、國內回收能力和材料安全變得日益重要,尤其是在再生纖維能夠減少對廢棄原料的依賴並支持低影響製造的情況下。
中國憑藉其製造業規模、合成纖維生產能力以及注重資源效率的政策,在紡織品回收領域發揮著至關重要的作用,但廢舊產品分類、污染控制和混紡纖維回收仍然是重點工作。美國正透過加強減少掩埋、增加轉售、零售回收計劃以及開展生產者責任政策討論來推進紡織品回收,但分類回收系統和混合材料廢棄物仍然是挑戰。印度擁有成熟的紡織品回收生態系統,包括機械回收叢集、再利用網路和棉花廢料處理,這使其在循環製造和紡織品回收領域的重要性日益凸顯。德國是歐洲領先的循環經濟市場,擁有強大的分類能力、廢棄物管理專業知識以及一套協調一致的高品質回收政策。另一方面,日本則強調高品質分類、技術主導的回收以及消費者參與回收計劃。英國致力於減少紡織品廢棄物、再利用和循環經營模式,日益關注產品耐用性、消費者行為和廢棄產品回收。義大利的紡織產區、奢侈品價值鏈以及羊毛和時尚傳統為專業回收提供了支持,尤其是在能夠充分利用高品質生產廢棄物和紡織品專業知識的領域。同時,韓國結合先進的製造技術、數位技術和永續性舉措,支持紡織品分類、再生紡織品和循環產品開發的創新。加拿大正透過市政試點項目、維修和再利用網路以及以永續性為導向的採購,加強其循環舉措,其中禦寒服裝和耐用紡織品創造了高價值的回收機會。澳洲市場地域分散,因此專注於紡織品管理、減少廢棄物掩埋以及服裝廢棄物解決方案。法國因其系統化的紡織品生產者責任制、維修獎勵和永續性標籤而脫穎而出,並對循環時尚實踐產生了重大影響。巴西擁有大規模的服裝和紡織工業基礎,其回收機會與都市區收集、工業廢棄物利用和循環時尚計劃密切相關。西班牙正透過永續發展項目、地方收集舉措以及品牌參與再生材料計畫來推動循環紡織產業的發展。俄羅斯在紡織廢棄物的利用和工業回收方面擁有發展機遇,但面臨基礎設施、投資和貿易方面的限制。墨西哥則利用其毗鄰北美服裝供應鏈和製造群的優勢,支持消費前紡織廢棄物收集、工業廢料回收和跨境循環採購的潛在成長。
產業領導企業應優先制定紡織品回收策略,涵蓋從設計階段到採購、生產、零售、回收和廢舊產品處置的各個環節。產品設計應盡量減少複雜混紡,採用可拆卸裝飾部件,清楚標註材料,並符合與現有機械和化學回收管道相符的可回收性要求。企業應與地方政府、物流供應商、回收商、分類商、零售商和技術開發公司建立夥伴關係,以確保原料供應穩定並提高回收效率。投資人工智慧驅動的分類、紡織品識別、數位產品護照和生產歷史追蹤系統,將有助於提高材料品質並檢驗再生材料的含量。企業領導者也應明確區分再利用、維修、轉售和回收策略,避免過早回收仍具有功能價值的產品。與供應商的合作至關重要,尤其是在管理消費前碎屑廢棄物、減少污染和建立閉合迴路材料流方面。為提升信譽度,企業應利用認證標準、透明聲明和可審計數據,而非空泛的永續發展口號。最後,企業應透過可視化紡織廢棄物的流動、評估其對生產者延伸責任制 (EPR) 的影響,以及製定將合規性、減排、資源效率和使用檢驗的再生材料聯繫起來的循環經濟藍圖,為監管變化做好準備。
紡織品回收評估的調查方法是基於檢驗的二手研究、政策分析、技術文獻綜述以及對產業價值鏈動態的系統性評估。主要資訊來源包括政府廢棄物和回收數據、循環經濟法規、環保機構出版刊物、永續性標準、經同行評審的紡織品回收研究、紡織品廢棄物管理報告、貿易和關稅數據,以及來自認可的行業協會和國際組織的文件。該分析考慮了紡織品的整個生命週期,包括原料選擇、設計、生產廢棄物、收集、分類、再利用、機械回收、化學回收、降級回收以及再生纖維的再利用。透過檢驗監管成熟度、製造集中度、紡織品消費模式、回收基礎設施、技術應用、勞動力和物流狀況以及循環經濟舉措,得出區域、群體和國家層面的具體見解。透過對公開資料來源進行交叉比較,進行定性檢驗,以避免未經證實的結論。本調查方法有意排除市場規模計算、收入估算、市場佔有率排名和預測。相反,它著重分析基於證據的結構趨勢、採用促進因素、營運障礙以及對紡織品回收生態系統相關人員的策略影響。
紡織品回收正從分散的廢棄物管理模式轉變為循環紡織品、永續時尚和負責任的材料管理的關鍵組成部分。政策壓力、消費者期望、採購要求和技術創新正推動該行業朝著更好的回收、更智慧的分類、更高附加價值的回收和更完善的可追溯性方向發展。人工智慧、數位產品數據和先進的紡織品回收技術正在幫助克服長期存在的障礙,例如混紡纖維、污染、材料資訊缺失和原料品質差異。區域趨勢差異顯著。歐洲以政策主導,亞太地區以生產和規模主導,而北美則日益關注廢棄物再利用和循環項目。同時,拉丁美洲、中東和非洲在基礎設施建設以及再利用和回收的整合方面看到了巨大的機會。成功的關鍵在於整個價值鏈的合作,從生態設計和材料選擇到消費者回收和再生材料成分檢驗。那些及早採取措施建立透明、可擴展且注重品質的紡織品回收系統的組織,更有可能在滿足監管要求、減少環境影響以及為更循環的紡織經濟做出貢獻方面處於更有利的地位。
The Textile Recycling Market is projected to grow by USD 8.94 billion at a CAGR of 5.66% by 2032.
| KEY MARKET STATISTICS | |
|---|---|
| Base Year [2025] | USD 6.07 billion |
| Estimated Year [2026] | USD 6.40 billion |
| Forecast Year [2032] | USD 8.94 billion |
| CAGR (%) | 5.66% |
Textile recycling is becoming a strategic pillar of circular fashion, sustainable manufacturing, and waste reduction as governments, brands, recyclers, and material innovators respond to rising textile waste, resource scarcity, and tighter environmental regulation. The sector covers collection, sorting, reuse, mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, fiber-to-fiber recovery, downcycling into insulation or industrial materials, and the reintegration of recycled fibers into apparel, home textiles, automotive interiors, and nonwoven applications. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, the textile sector is associated with significant resource consumption and pollution impacts, making circular textile systems increasingly important for climate, water, and waste objectives. Growing attention to extended producer responsibility, eco-design, traceability, and recycled-content procurement is reshaping how textiles are designed, labeled, collected, and processed. Demand is also influenced by the environmental burden of virgin fiber production, including water use, chemical inputs, land requirements, and greenhouse gas emissions. However, the industry continues to face structural challenges, including mixed-fiber fabrics, elastane contamination, dye and finish complexity, limited automated sorting capacity, inconsistent collection systems, and the need for reliable quality standards. As a result, textile recycling is shifting from a waste-management activity to an integrated value-chain priority connecting fashion, chemicals, logistics, retail, municipal infrastructure, and advanced materials.
The textile recycling landscape is undergoing transformative shifts driven by circular economy policy, consumer sustainability expectations, and technological improvements across the post-consumer textile value chain. Regulatory frameworks increasingly emphasize separate textile collection, landfill diversion, producer responsibility, product durability, repairability, and recycled material disclosure. In the European Union, separate collection of textiles is required from 2025 under waste legislation, reinforcing the need for scalable collection, sorting, and processing systems. This is accelerating investments in collection networks, digital product passports, fiber identification tools, and pre-processing infrastructure. Mechanical recycling remains important for cotton, wool, and certain synthetic streams, particularly where fiber quality can be preserved or repurposed. Chemical recycling is gaining attention for polyester, cellulose-based fibers, and blended textiles because it can potentially recover polymers or monomers from complex waste streams, though commercialization depends on feedstock purity, energy efficiency, solvent management, and output consistency. Brands and manufacturers are also redesigning products for recyclability by reducing hard-to-separate trims, limiting problematic blends, and improving material labeling. At the same time, resale, repair, rental, and reuse models are changing the role of recycling by extending product life before end-of-life processing. These shifts are creating a more connected ecosystem in which textile recycling supports decarbonization, supply security, regulatory compliance, and responsible resource management.
Artificial intelligence is creating a cumulative impact across textile recycling by improving sorting accuracy, operational efficiency, quality control, and traceability. AI-enabled optical sorting systems using near-infrared spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, computer vision, and machine learning can help identify fiber composition, color, fabric type, contamination, and product condition more consistently than manual sorting alone. This is especially important because textile waste often contains blended fibers, multilayer constructions, dyes, finishes, buttons, zippers, coatings, and elastane, all of which affect recyclability. AI can also optimize collection routes, analyze feedstock patterns from municipal and retail take-back streams, and support dynamic decision-making on whether items should be reused, repaired, mechanically recycled, chemically recycled, or downcycled. In processing facilities, predictive maintenance and process analytics can reduce downtime, improve yield, and support more stable recycled fiber quality. Digital traceability platforms enhanced by AI can connect product-level data, material passports, sorting records, and recycled-content verification, helping address greenwashing concerns and improve buyer confidence. While AI is not a standalone solution, its integration with robotics, advanced sensors, and standardized data systems is improving the technical feasibility of scaling textile recycling infrastructure and strengthening evidence-based circular textile management.
Asia-Pacific is central to textile recycling because the region combines large-scale textile manufacturing, expanding apparel consumption, and increasing policy attention to industrial waste and circular materials. China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and ASEAN economies are strengthening recycling ecosystems through collection initiatives, industrial symbiosis, recycled polyester capabilities, and innovation in chemical and mechanical recovery. North America is advancing through municipal textile diversion programs, brand take-back initiatives, resale integration, and growing regulatory interest in extended producer responsibility, with the United States and Canada emphasizing landfill reduction, circular supply chains, and stronger reuse-to-recycling pathways. Latin America is developing opportunities through informal and formal collection networks, garment reuse, industrial textile recovery, and growing sustainability commitments in Brazil and Mexico, although infrastructure consistency, financing, and standardized sorting remain key challenges. Europe is one of the most policy-driven regions for textile recycling, supported by circular economy action plans, separate textile collection requirements, eco-design initiatives, and increasing pressure to reduce unmanaged textile exports and improve domestic processing capacity. The Middle East is emerging through sustainability strategies, waste-management modernization, and circularity programs in GCC economies, particularly where urban development, tourism, and retail growth are increasing textile waste streams. Africa plays a critical role in global textile reuse flows and secondhand textile trade, while also facing the need to build local sorting, repair, upcycling, and recycling infrastructure to manage unusable imports and domestic post-consumer textiles more sustainably.
ASEAN is gaining relevance in textile recycling due to its strong apparel manufacturing base, export-oriented supply chains, and rising regional focus on sustainable production, particularly as international buyers seek traceable recycled inputs, lower-waste sourcing models, and improved handling of pre-consumer textile scrap. The GCC is approaching textile recycling through the lens of waste diversion, circular economy policy, smart city development, and sustainability-linked industrial diversification, with opportunities in collection systems, sorting hubs, recycled textile applications in construction, and nonwoven uses suited to infrastructure-led economies. The European Union is a global policy catalyst for textile circularity, with separate textile collection, eco-design, extended producer responsibility discussions, product transparency initiatives, and digital product passport development shaping supplier requirements beyond Europe's borders. BRICS economies are important because they include major textile producers, consumer markets, and recycling feedstock generators, making them influential in scaling fiber recovery, recycled polyester, cotton recycling, and circular manufacturing practices. G7 countries are advancing textile recycling through regulatory pressure, sustainable procurement, technology innovation, and brand-led circularity commitments, while also addressing the environmental impacts of textile exports, overconsumption, and low-value disposal. NATO economies overlap with several advanced policy and industrial markets where supply-chain resilience, domestic recycling capacity, and material security are becoming more relevant, especially as recycled fibers can reduce dependence on virgin raw materials and support lower-impact manufacturing.
China is pivotal to textile recycling due to its manufacturing scale, synthetic fiber capacity, and policy focus on resource efficiency, although post-consumer sorting, contamination control, and blended textile recycling remain critical priorities. The United States is advancing textile recycling through growing landfill diversion efforts, resale expansion, retail take-back programs, and policy discussions around producer responsibility, though collection fragmentation and mixed-material waste remain challenges. India has a long-established textile recovery ecosystem, including mechanical recycling clusters, reuse networks, and cotton waste processing, and is increasingly important for circular manufacturing and fiber recovery. Germany is a leading European circular economy market with strong sorting capability, waste-management expertise, and policy alignment around high-quality recycling, while Japan emphasizes high-quality sorting, technology-led recycling, and consumer participation in collection schemes. The United Kingdom is focused on textile waste reduction, reuse, and circular business models, with increasing attention to product durability, consumer behavior, and post-consumer collection. Italy's textile districts, luxury supply chains, and wool and fashion heritage support specialized recycling, especially where high-quality production waste and fiber expertise are available, while South Korea combines advanced manufacturing, digital technology, and sustainability policy to support innovation in textile sorting, recycled fibers, and circular product development. Canada is strengthening circular textile initiatives through municipal pilots, repair and reuse networks, and sustainability-focused procurement, with cold-weather apparel and durable textiles creating opportunities for high-value recovery. Australia is focusing on textile stewardship, landfill reduction, and solutions for clothing waste in a geographically dispersed market. France is notable for its structured approach to textile producer responsibility, repair incentives, and sustainability labeling, making it influential in circular fashion implementation. Brazil has a significant apparel and textile base, and its recycling opportunities are linked to urban collection, industrial scrap utilization, and circular fashion initiatives. Spain is advancing circular textiles through sustainability programs, regional collection initiatives, and brand engagement in recycled materials. Russia has opportunities in textile waste utilization and industrial recycling but faces infrastructure, investment, and trade-related constraints. Mexico benefits from its proximity to North American apparel supply chains and manufacturing clusters, supporting potential growth in pre-consumer textile waste recovery, industrial scrap recycling, and cross-border circular sourcing.
Industry leaders should prioritize textile recycling strategies that begin at the design stage and extend across sourcing, production, retail, collection, and end-of-life processing. Products should be designed with fewer complex blends, detachable trims, clear material labeling, and recyclability requirements that align with available mechanical and chemical recycling pathways. Organizations should build partnerships with municipalities, logistics providers, recyclers, sorters, retailers, and technology developers to secure consistent feedstock and improve recovery outcomes. Investment in AI-enabled sorting, fiber identification, digital product passports, and chain-of-custody systems can improve material quality and recycled-content verification. Leaders should also separate reuse, repair, resale, and recycling strategies to avoid prematurely recycling products that still have functional value. Supplier engagement is essential, especially for managing pre-consumer cutting waste, reducing contamination, and creating closed-loop material flows. To strengthen credibility, organizations should use recognized standards, transparent claims, and auditable data rather than broad sustainability language. Finally, companies should prepare for regulatory change by mapping textile waste flows, assessing exposure to extended producer responsibility, and developing circularity roadmaps that link compliance, emissions reduction, resource efficiency, and verified recycled material use.
The research methodology for assessing textile recycling is grounded in verified secondary research, policy analysis, technical literature review, and structured evaluation of industry value-chain dynamics. Key inputs include government waste and recycling data, circular economy regulations, environmental agency publications, sustainability standards, peer-reviewed studies on fiber recovery, textile waste management reports, trade and customs context, and documentation from recognized industry associations and international organizations. The analysis considers the full textile lifecycle, including raw material selection, design, production waste, post-consumer collection, sorting, reuse, mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, downcycling, and recycled fiber reintegration. Regional, group, and country insights are developed by examining regulatory maturity, manufacturing concentration, textile consumption patterns, collection infrastructure, technology adoption, labor and logistics conditions, and circular economy initiatives. Qualitative validation is applied through cross-comparison of publicly available data sources to avoid unsupported claims. The methodology deliberately excludes market sizing, revenue estimation, market share ranking, and forecasting, focusing instead on evidence-backed structural trends, adoption drivers, operational barriers, and strategic implications for stakeholders in the textile recycling ecosystem.
Textile recycling is moving from a fragmented waste-handling practice toward a critical component of circular textiles, sustainable fashion, and responsible material management. Policy pressure, consumer expectations, procurement requirements, and technology innovation are collectively pushing the industry toward better collection, smarter sorting, higher-value recycling, and improved traceability. AI, digital product data, and advanced fiber recovery technologies can help address long-standing barriers such as mixed fibers, contamination, missing material information, and inconsistent feedstock quality. Regional dynamics vary significantly: Europe is policy-led, Asia-Pacific is manufacturing- and scale-driven, North America is increasingly focused on diversion and circular programs, while Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa present important opportunities for infrastructure development and reuse-to-recycling integration. Success will depend on collaboration across the value chain, from eco-design and material selection to consumer collection and verified recycled-content use. Organizations that act early to build transparent, scalable, and quality-focused textile recycling systems will be better positioned to meet regulatory requirements, reduce environmental impact, and participate in the transition toward a more circular textile economy.