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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~~report~~ by WRAP is 711,000 per year (and more recently 733,000 tonnes per year in a report referring to 2024 WRAP unpublished data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]]

[[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reported by WRAP is 711,000 per year (and more recently 733,000 tonnes per year in a report referring to 2024 WRAP unpublished data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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 [[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report by WRAP is 711,000 per year (and more recently 733,000 tonnes per year in a report referring to 2024 WRAP unpublished data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]]
+[[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__