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[[Category:Tonnage & Waste Types]]

[[Textiles]] are defined as types of cloth or fabric, especially ones that have been woven<ref>Collins 2019. [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/textile Definition of textile. Collinsdictionary.com.] [online] [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019]</ref>. The macro tonnage of 'post-consumer textiles' ~~report~~ by WRAP is 711,000 per year, but the most recent [[DEFRA]] statistics show only 139,445 tonnes of all textiles wastes<ref>https://www.wrap.ngo/take-action/uk-textiles-pact</ref>, the difference mainly due to the amount of textiles that remain in [[residual waste]]

[[Textiles]] are defined as types of cloth or fabric, especially ones that have been woven<ref>Collins 2019. [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/textile Definition of textile. Collinsdictionary.com.] [online] [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019]</ref>. The macro tonnage of 'post-consumer textiles' reported by WRAP is 711,000 per year (and more recently 733,000 tonnes per year in a report referring to 2024 WRAP unpublished data<ref>https://ukft.org/act-uk-final-report/</ref>), but the most recent [[DEFRA]] statistics show only 139,445 tonnes of all textiles wastes<ref>https://www.wrap.ngo/take-action/uk-textiles-pact</ref>, the difference mainly due to the amount of textiles that remain in [[residual waste]]

[[File:Textiles pic.png|300px|left|Picture of baled textiles - source MRW Magazine]]__TOC__

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The macro numbers above do not breakdown the component elements of textiles, and there is a significant tonnage of textiles believed to be in the residual waste stream based on tonnage put on the market.

The macro numbers above do not breakdown the component elements of textiles, and there is a significant tonnage of textiles believed to be in the residual waste stream, based on tonnage put on the market, that is going to [[incineration]] and [[landfill]].

== Overview ==

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 [[Category:Tonnage & Waste Types]]
-[[Textiles]] are defined as types of cloth or fabric, especially ones that have been woven<ref>Collins 2019. [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/textile Definition of textile. Collinsdictionary.com.] [online] [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019]</ref>. The macro tonnage of 'post-consumer textiles' report by WRAP is 711,000 per year, but the most recent [[DEFRA]] statistics show only 139,445 tonnes of all textiles wastes<ref>https://www.wrap.ngo/take-action/uk-textiles-pact</ref>, the difference mainly due to the amount of textiles that remain in [[residual waste]]
+[[Textiles]] are defined as types of cloth or fabric, especially ones that have been woven<ref>Collins 2019. [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/textile Definition of textile. Collinsdictionary.com.] [online] [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019]</ref>. The macro tonnage of 'post-consumer textiles' reported by WRAP is 711,000 per year (and more recently 733,000 tonnes per year in a report referring to 2024 WRAP unpublished data<ref>https://ukft.org/act-uk-final-report/</ref>), but the most recent [[DEFRA]] statistics show only 139,445 tonnes of all textiles wastes<ref>https://www.wrap.ngo/take-action/uk-textiles-pact</ref>, the difference mainly due to the amount of textiles that remain in [[residual waste]]
 [[File:Textiles pic.png|300px|left|Picture of baled textiles - source MRW Magazine]]__TOC__
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 [[File:Textiles.png|800px|frameless|centre|]]
-The macro numbers above do not breakdown the component elements of textiles, and there is a significant tonnage of textiles believed to be in the residual waste stream based on tonnage put on the market.
+The macro numbers above do not breakdown the component elements of textiles, and there is a significant tonnage of textiles believed to be in the residual waste stream, based on tonnage put on the market, that is going to [[incineration]] and [[landfill]].
 == Overview ==