It also provides an analysis of the economic and environmental effectiveness of those recycling technologies and a roadmap of the textile recycling technologies under development in order to support their industrial uptake. Finally, it also provides an analysis on relevant policy initiatives in order to tackle potential regulatory barriers and scale up textile waste recycling activities in the EU.

This study is useful for cities and regions looking to (i) improve their knowledge about opportunities and challenges of textile waste recycling technologies, developed and applied at global and EU level with regard to their technical feasibility and maturity for market uptake and, economic and environmental effectiveness, (ii) identify promising areas for future research and innovation projects and necessary steps to support the industrial uptake of textile recycling technologies already under development and (iii) have an in-depth analysis of existing regulatory barriers and alternative policy options to improve and scale up textile waste recycling activities in the EU. This can be useful in the Mapping and Designing stages of CSS Deployment, especially in 'analysing the policy framework and potential stakeholders', as well as 'identifying intervention areas and building a CSS case'.