Coping with challenges of textile collection through an innovative framework towards a sustainable textile circular economy

Textile collection is a challenging task for all stakeholders in this environment. It is organized in different ways, there are the commercial and municipal collections and charity organizations. The collection of used textiles is the beginning of textile recycling and therefore decisive for all further processes. The aim of the sorting analysis of used textiles is to generate data for high-quality collected goods in order to ultimately provide them with the highest possible utilization methods. Influencing challenges like moisture or impurities have a significant negative impact on the collection qualities. In order to price drops of used garments also the economical aspect should be considered to ensure the cost-covering collection. As the high-quality textile collection is hindered by various factors, this paper deals with the challenges of textile collection, and describes and analyses the inherent logistics processes as an essential part of a textile Circular Economy. Only with additional data it is possible to improve the logistics processes in textile collection and recycling, which in turn has a positive effect on the sustainability of textile and logistics industry.