{"id":129491,"date":"2024-04-08T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/textile-recycling-industry-calls-on-uk-government-to-advert-capacity-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T07:54:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T04:54:26","slug":"textile-recycling-industry-calls-on-uk-government-to-advert-capacity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/textile-recycling-industry-calls-on-uk-government-to-advert-capacity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Textile recycling industry calls on UK Government to advert capacity crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129491\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe Textile Recycling Association (TRA) has called upon the UK Government to implement its long-overdue Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme, as processing plants nationwide operated by textile collectors and sorters near full capacity.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated \u00a3140m worth of clothing is sent to UK landfill each year. The TRA, a recognised trade association representing more than 75% of the UK\u2019s used textile collectors and sorters, has emphasised that processing plants across the nation are reaching capacity, in turn, threatening the ability to collect textiles from charity shops, recycling centres and community textile banks.<\/p>\n<p>The TRA further highlights that fast fashion has intensified the influx of low-quality textiles into the recycling stream, driving up operational costs and pushing many textile merchants to the brink of financial collapse. The repercussions of a failure to collect waste textiles could be catastrophic for the environment, according to the TRA, with potential consequences including microplastic pollution, water contamination and the accumulation of textile waste in landfills. Globally, the scale of textile waste production amounts to 92 million tonnes annually \u2013 a figure equivalent to the height of Mount Everest every seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s used textiles industry, valued at more than \u00a31bn per year, holds significant economic importance, with an estimated one in every 25 jobs in the UK linked to this sector. Nevertheless, according to the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), an estimated \u00a3140m worth of clothing is sent to UK landfill each year. Additionally, only 620,000 tonnes of used textiles are collected every year for reuse and recycling in the UK, while 60% of these textiles are exported, as per WRAP data. In response to these challenges, the TRA is urging the Government to intervene and regulate the industry, including the introduction of an EPR scheme. The scheme will place the responsibility for the entire lifecycle of a product, including its disposal, on the producers rather than solely on consumers or waste management authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/textile-recycling-industry-calls-on-uk-government-to-advert-capacity-crisis\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/textile-recycling-industry-calls-on-uk-government-to-advert-capacity-crisis\/\">edie.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/textile-recycling-industry-calls-on-uk-government-to-advert-capacity-crisis\/\">Textile recycling industry calls on UK Government to advert capacity crisis<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,2278,6855,579],"class_list":["post-129491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-industry","tag-textile-recycling","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}