TRUSTex's Assessment of separate collection strategies

This deliverable assesses separate collection strategies for post-consumer textiles and examines their implications for reuse, end-of-life treatment, and emerging textile EPR implementation.

The analysis combines literature, empirical cases, interviews, stakeholder workshops, and supplementary materials to compare major collection archetypes and their suitability across different contexts. The findings show that collection performance depends on how systems balance capture, quality preservation, operational viability, and measurability. Effective collection is therefore best understood as a context-sensitive system design issue rather than a question of maximizing one channel or one metric alone. The deliverable concludes that portfolio-based collection configurations are generally more robust than one-size-fits-all approaches, that EPR target-setting should distinguish between collection and outcome targets, and that fee logic should support not only collection volume but also sorting, quality protection, and reporting. It also proposes a minimum viable reporting logic based on auditable handovers and downstream fate recording.

Overall, the deliverable provides a first-mile evidence base and practical design guidance for governance, implementation, and further TRUSTex work.