The Training on “Sustainable Textiles: basics around its circularity and waste management” under GIZ Pilot Project on “Advancing Closed-Loop Recycling – Textile Waste Improvement Programme for Circularity (WIP4C)” 

Date and Location: 12.03.2024, at CGTI, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 

Introduction on the pilot:

GIZ FABRIC Project has conducted initial research into post-industrial textile waste flow in Cambodia and learned that an estimated 136,151 tonnes of textile waste are generated each year. Furthermore, the majority of the textile waste is being downcycled / incinerated or landfilled due to lack of textile waste management practices in place at source, traceability, and limited infrastructure. You can further learn from our previous Fabric Waste Streams Mapping.

To shifting from the current situation, GIZ FABRIC and its partner is jointly worked together to establish Pilot Project to improve waste disposal situation, avoid burning and landfill, reduce environmental impacts in Cambodia, demonstrate mutual benefiting business models for factories and recyclers, and improve local economic conditions and local recycling infrastructure.

Purpose of the training:

• To improve the quality of waste sorting at its source for better recyclability
• To share the principles of Circular Economy and Textile Waste Management (TWM)
• To share the coming regulations and the importance of the TWM
• To engage with the factories the hands-on tools to improve TWM at their facility
• To prepare the factories for standard requirements (i.e., Higg FEM / GRS / recyclers' requirements
• To learn and share industrial challenges and find common solutions.