Centre Promoting ‘Enhancing Circularity and Sustainability’ Practices in Textile and Apparel Sector

04 February 2023: Union Minister of State for Textiles, Darshana Jardosh has informed that, the recycling and reusing Textile waste material is an effective method to build sustainability in Textile Industry.

Government in collaboration with United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) is implementing a project called ‘Enhancing Circularity and Sustainability’ in India. The main objective of the project is to minimize the negative environmental impacts of Indian Textile by promoting sustainable practices and mainstreaming knowledge on circular production based practices in the Textiles and Apparel sectors. Government has also approved 20 strategic research projects in the areas of Specialty fibres and geo textiles and amongst the 20 Research projects, 3 projects in the area of Textile waste recycling have also been approved.