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At the start of the year, Europe’s textile agenda moved from policy intent to operational measurement: EU member states must now run periodic compositional surveys of mixed municipal waste to quantify the textile share—hard data that will shape collection capacity and producer-responsibility economics. A few days later, the debate shifted from measurement to mandates, as an EU recycling industry group urged compulsory recycled-fibre content beginning at ** per cent in ****, stepping up to ** per cent by **** and ** per cent by ****.
In parallel, trade risk is reasserting itself in key production hubs. Early-January industry testimony in India warned of up to a ** per cent drop in export orders for the January–March **** quarter, citing US tariff impacts and buyers redirecting sourcing within Asia. Shipping conditions are also entering the year unevenly, with industry commentary flagging variable capacity and congestion dynamics, another reminder that lead-times are not ‘normalised’, only redistributed.
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