Most conversations about textile waste describe the front of the pipe: how much there is, how little gets recovered, and how far there is to go.

This session takes the opposite approach and focuses on the destination.

ēkot Circular Solutions is a New Zealand circular economy company working on a single question: what has to be true before recovered textile stops being waste and starts being a raw material somebody can actually buy? The answer is not more collection. It is a specification, a test method, and a record of what is in the batch, verified by someone other than the supplier.