Turkey and GFA Join Forces to Innovate Post-Industrial Textile Recycling System

Turkey arms its recycling system. Global Fashion Agenda has launched Circular Fashion Partnership: Turkey, a new project designed to build a national system capable of capturing and recycling post-industrial textile waste from 2026. This will connect factories, recycling plants and brands to give a second life to plant waste in one of the world’s leading apparel producers.

The program will carry out a series of activities starting next year, such as waste assessment, capacity building through a training model, recycling matching sessions and roundtable discussions with policy makers.

“The aim is to help the country prepare its textile sector for the future, unlocking new economic value from waste and strengthening its competitiveness in an increasingly regulated global marketplace,“ Global Fashion Agenda said in a statement.

Circular Fashion Partnership will help suppliers prepare for EU regulatory requirements

Circular Fashion Partnership is led by Global Fashion Agenda together with Rematters, a Turkish textile consulting and engineering firm, and is supported by implementation partners Reverse Resources, Closed Loop Fashion and Circle Economy Foundation, with funding from the H&M Foundation.

The initiative will also help suppliers prepare for evolving regulatory requirements, including circularity and waste reduction obligations promoted by the European Union, while fostering collaboration at the national level to drive long-term structural change.

This project is part of Global Fashion Agenda’s Global Circular Fashion Forum (Gcff), which has implemented similar models in countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia. In these markets, Gcff initiatives have digitally tracked more than 21,000 tons of textile waste and connected more than 100 factories and 20 global brands with recycling partners.