Turkey Launches Circular Fashion Partnership To Boost Textile Recycling
Turkey is strengthening its textile recycling capabilities with the launch of the Circular Fashion Partnership: Turkey, a new initiative led by the Global Fashion Agenda. Starting in 2026, the project aims to establish a national system to capture and recycle post-industrial textile waste, connecting factories, recycling plants, and brands to give new life to textile by-products in one of the world’s leading apparel-producing countries.
The program will kick off with activities such as waste assessments, capacity-building workshops, recycling matchmaking sessions, and roundtable discussions with policymakers. The initiative is designed to unlock economic value from waste while enhancing the competitiveness of Turkey’s textile sector in a rapidly evolving global market.
“Circular Fashion Partnership will help prepare Turkey’s textile industry for the future, creating economic opportunities from waste and ensuring compliance with increasingly stringent regulations,” the Global Fashion Agenda said in a statement.
The project is led by Global Fashion Agenda in collaboration with Turkish consulting and engineering firm Rematters, with implementation support from Reverse Resources, Closed Loop Fashion, and Circle Economy Foundation, and funding from the H&M Foundation. It will also assist suppliers in meeting upcoming EU regulations on circularity and waste reduction, while fostering collaboration across the national textile ecosystem to drive long-term structural change.
This initiative builds on the Global Fashion Agenda’s Global Circular Fashion Forum (Gcff) model, which has successfully implemented similar programs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Indonesia. To date, these efforts have digitally tracked over 21,000 tons of textile waste and connected more than 100 factories and 20 global brands with recycling partners.
