This video explores the European textile industry and examines the key factors suggested to scale up the production of bio-based fibres.
Brief me
- 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 28 billion added value in 2022.
- 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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