CISUTAC’s Open Data Guide

Europe, with its ambitious sustainability agenda, faces both an urgent challenge and a unique opportunity: transforming post-consumer textile waste into valuable secondary raw materials. Achieving this, however, is not simply about scaling up recycling infrastructure, it requires a fundamental shift in how data is shared, accessed, and managed across the textile value chain. Transparent, harmonised, and accessible product data will determine whether circularity in the sector becomes a reality.

CISUTAC partners RISE Research Institutes of Sweden/Textile at RISE and Global Textile Scheme GmbH released an Open Data Guide that addresses precisely this challenge. The guide explores how the textile industry can overcome the critical bottleneck of insufficient data accessibility, laying out practical steps for brands, recyclers, and other stakeholders in the value chain to prepare for the forthcoming Digital Product Passport under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.