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Bio-based textiles

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Brief me

This video explores the European textile industry and examines the key factors suggested to scale up the production of bio-based fibres.

  • The EU policy supports a sustainable development of the textile industry, increasing textile-to-textile recycling and limiting overproduction.
  • Within this context, the bio-based textile sector plays a crucial role, as it can contribute to reduce the use of virgin fossil-based synthetic materials.
  • In the EU-27, the bio-based textiles sector provided 700 000 jobs and EUR 25 billion added value in 2021.
  • Key factors to enable the sector growth in EU are: strengthen and upscale local EU value chains, identify and promote sustainable sources of biomass feedstock and support innovation.

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Brief on Bio-based textiles in a sustainable and circular bioeconomy

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The role of bio-based textile fibres in a circular and sustainable textiles system (EEA report)

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