Paving the Way to 2025
Using separate collection in 2025 as a catalyst, we work with municipalities and their textile partners to take action on textiles. These Best Practices are the basis of this program.
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Status:
Active, accepting new participants in Estonia, Finland and the Netherlands
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Who can join
Local governments, ministries, textile collectors and sorters, waste managers and organizations supporting these entities
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Goals
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Build strong partnerships for textiles and improve local pilot project results with good data
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Learn from other municipalities and regions
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Increase textile reuse, recycling and transparency
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Participants also set region-specific goals
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How it works in practice
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Kick off with 1.5-hour session, after which we:
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Define local and national textile needs, influences and existing data
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Start setting a baseline for the current state of post-consumer textile management and define targets
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Implement quarterly textile flow reporting for collectors, sorters and other textile stakeholders
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Ongoing activities:
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Analyzing data and identifying trends, metrics and practices​ (locally and compared with other regions)
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Increasing what's working, addressing challenges and measuring results over time
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Engaging national and EU level public sector to highlight opportunities, needs and concerns
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​Publishing best practices and related communications
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Monthly check-ins to ensure the implementation is on track
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Quarterly dashboard updates and data review
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Benefits
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Data-driven textile collection systems and projects are more effective​
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Monthly team sessions keep participants connected and learning from one another
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Local authorities working together have a stronger influence at the national level
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Collaboration across multiple regions provides broader insights
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Transparency for citizens is only possible with good data
