Est-ce que la collecte de textiles pour la revalorisation ou le recyclage est arrêtée au niveau international ?
Executive summary
Non: available reporting shows textile collection for reuse and recycling is active and expanding internationally, not halted; multiple firms, projects and market reports forecast growth in textile recycling capacity and markets through 2025–2030 (market projections range from about USD 5.1–11.9 billion depending on the study) [1][2][3]. European regulation is pushing mandatory separate collection of textile waste by 1 January 2025, underscoring that collection is being institutionalised rather than ended [4].
1. “Claims of a global stoppage don’t match market data”
Several market and industry reports in 2025 show the textile recycling sector is growing, not stopping: MarketsandMarkets projects the textile recycling market to rise from USD 8.41 billion in 2025 to USD 11.88 billion by 2030 [3][5], Future Market Insights gives a different but still positive outlook (USD 5.1 billion in 2025 to USD 7.0 billion by 2035) [2], and GlobeNewswire reprints similar forecasts [6]. These multiple forecasts demonstrate active commercial interest and investment rather than a universal halt [3][6][2].
2. “New plants and technologies are coming onstream”
Industry reporting documents new projects and commercial-scale plants scheduled between 2024–2028: examples include enzymatic and chemical recycling plants, a textile-to-textile recycling plant in Cedar Creek, N.C., with operations targeted by mid‑2025, and planned first-of-a-kind enzymatic plastics and textile recycling facilities slated for completion in 2028 [1][1][7]. Specialty Fabrics Review highlights firms like Reju™ and Samsara Eco scaling regeneration and enzymatic approaches—evidence of ongoing deployment of collection-to-recycling value chains [7].
3. “Policy is accelerating collection, not stopping it”
Regulatory moves in the EU explicitly require separate collection of textile waste by 1 January 2025 and envisage extended producer responsibility (EPR) rules to finance collection, sorting and recycling [4]. Precedence Research and other industry coverage also treat mandatory collection in EU member states as a driver for projects and investment [8]. That regulatory trajectory points to formalised collection streams across jurisdictions rather than termination of collection activities [4][8].
4. “Collection challenges and limits are still very real”
While collection is expanding, major reports also show systemic limits: Textile Exchange’s Materials Market Report notes that recycled fibers remain a small share of global fiber production—recycled fibers were 7.6% of total in 2024 but less than 1% came from pre‑ and post‑consumer textile recycling—signalling that collection and effective recycling of consumer textiles still face bottlenecks in scale, contamination and technology [9][10]. UNEP and other actors flag huge global textile waste volumes (92 million tonnes annually) and low recycling rates, underlining that collection must ramp up to meet demand [11].
5. “Multiple viewpoints: optimism from industry, caution from sustainability data”
Industry sources present an optimistic, investment-driven narrative: new plants, partnerships, and rising market valuations point to rapid expansion [1][7][3]. Independent sustainability data and sectoral analysts temper that optimism by showing recycled textile content remains a tiny fraction of raw-fiber supply and that most “recycled polyester” today comes from plastic bottles rather than textile-to-textile recycling [9][10]. Both perspectives coexist in the reporting: progress is clear, but systemic transformation is incomplete [1][9].
6. “What the sources do not say”
Available sources do not mention a coordinated international decision or policy to stop textile collection for revalorisation/recycling. They also do not provide a single global metric that proves collection is uniformly expanding or specify collection coverage country-by-country beyond EU mandates (not found in current reporting). Any local changes or company-level pauses are not documented in the supplied corpus.
7. “Bottom line for readers”
Current reporting shows textile collection and recycling are active, stimulated by new technologies, private investment and EU regulation mandating separate collection by 2025; but recycling capacity still lags total textile waste and recycled‑textile share remains small, so collection systems must scale and improve to meet stated industry and policy ambitions [1][4][9].