According to the report, the global textile recycling market is likely to grow from USD 8.3 Billion in 2025 to USD 15.6 Billion in 2035 at a highest CAGR of 5.9% during the time period. The textile market has undergone a tremendous growth in textile recycling caused by a combination of environmental consciousness and the strictness of regulation policies concerning textile waste aggregation and a growing interest in circular fashion. High rates of urbanization and fast fashion have fueled the textile waste crisis, leading major corporate entities to pursue consumer-friendly actions.
Fiber regeneration technologies like chemical recycling of polyester and cellulose collection are being developed to produce high quality yarns with discarded garments. In addition, regulations such as extended producer responsibility (EPR) are forcing manufacturers to invest in closed-loop recycling. In April 2025, one of the leading textile recycling companies Renewcell collaborated with Zara to introduce clothes fully manufactured with Circulose, the recycled material made of second-hand textiles, further stressing the feasibility of sustainable fashion scale.
Likewise in May 2025, Eastman Chemical Company further scaled its molecular recycling facility in the U.S. designed to turn hard-to-recycle textiles into new materials, as a sign of the industry becoming ready to handle the mass-scale textile recovery. Such moves are catalyzing the process of nationwide acceptance of textile recycling and restructuring industry trends in favor of sustainability.
The increasing shortage and fluctuation in prices of virgin textile raw materials like cotton and polyester are compelling manufacturers to look out toward cost-effective alternatives which further continues to drive the need to seek recycled fibers. Raw material may be getting more uncertain due to drought conditions in the major cotton producing regions and the multiple changes in oil prices that hit synthetic fibers. The increasing pressure on brands and suppliers to use recycled inputs is motivated not only by a desire to lower the reliance on resource-heavy virgin materials but to limit exposure to supply chain shocks. This resource efficiency is making textile recycling an economically and environmentally possible solution.
The absence of standardized sorting and classification technologies of post-consumer textiles, however, is a bottleneck that needs to be addressed especially when it comes to cotton-polyester, clothing with trims that are not readily detachable. The lack of harmonized labeling and composition data further complicates it and in most cases this leads to contamination or downcycling. This directs inefficiency of making recycling of complex clothes difficult and results in a large percentage of collection textile waste ending in landfills or being combusted.
Moreover, this potential can be met through the emergence of the use of digital passports of products and traceability applications that allow products to be tracked all the way through their life cycles (blockchain e RFID). Combining fabric composition, types of dyes and recycling history, recyclers will be able to perform automatic sorting and feed cleaner streams. A number of clothing brands are testing applications in which smart labels enable consumers and recyclers to access information about garments via real-time data, thus, making their end-of-life processing more efficient and scalable. Such a traceability uprising is likely to result in improving the rate of material reuse and ensuring an economic investment in smart recycling technology.
Prominent players operating in the global textile recycling market are Ambercycle, American Textile Recycling Service, Birla Cellulose, Brandeur, ECOTEX COLLECT, FRIVEP, Hyosung Group, I:CO – I:Collect GmbH, iinouiio Ltd, Infinited Fiber Company, Lenzing AG, Martex Fiber Southern Corporation, Renewcell, SOEX Group, Texaid Group, The Boer Group, The WoolMark Company, UNIFI, Inc., Worn Again Technologies, and Other Key Players.
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Global Textile Recycling Market Analysis, by End-use Industry
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