Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 41092 Seville, Spain.
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 41092 Seville, Spain.
Waste Manag. 2024 Dec 1;189:389-400. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2024.08.037. Epub 2024 Sep 5.
With increasing textile consumption and limited sorting and recycling capacities, the EU faces major challenges in terms of managing its textile waste. This study investigates the environmental and socio-economic impacts of explorative policy scenarios for a more sustainable textile waste management system in Europe. These scenarios differ substantially in the amounts of textile waste generated and separately collected, closed-loop recycling capacities and textile waste exports. Our results show that sustainable textile waste management remains highly relevant for the sector. Still, without addressing in parallel prevention of textile waste generation via production and consumption patterns, a climate-neutral and circular textiles sector will be hard to achieve. Interventions in the waste management of textiles could reduce global warming impacts by up to 22.3 Mt CO per year, which translates to an 18% sector-wide impact by 2035. Depending on the intervention(s), the estimated required investment at present amounts to between 7 and 33 billion EUR. The study provides a valuable starting point for evidence-based decisions on future textile policymaking in Europe.
随着纺织品消费的增加和有限的分类和回收能力，欧盟在管理纺织品废物方面面临重大挑战。本研究探讨了探索性政策方案对欧洲更可持续的纺织品废物管理系统的环境和社会经济影响。这些方案在产生和单独收集的纺织品废物量、闭环回收能力和纺织品废物出口方面有很大的不同。我们的研究结果表明，可持续的纺织品废物管理仍然是该行业的高度关注。然而，如果不并行解决通过生产和消费模式防止纺织品废物产生的问题，要实现气候中和和循环利用的纺织品部门将非常困难。对纺织品废物管理的干预措施每年可减少高达 2230 万吨二氧化碳当量的温室气体变暖影响，到 2035 年，这将对整个行业产生 18%的影响。根据干预措施的不同，目前估计所需投资在 70 亿至 330 亿欧元之间。该研究为欧洲未来的纺织品政策制定提供了一个基于证据的决策的有价值的起点。
