Textile Waste Reduction Act

(a) Establishment. The Administrator shall establish and implement a national strategy, to be known as the National Textile Circularity Strategy, to advance textile circularity.

(b) Consultation; public comment. In developing the National Textile Circularity Strategy, the Administrator shall—

(1) provide an opportunity for public comment regarding the National Textile Circularity Strategy for no fewer than 60 days; and

(2) in addition to providing such opportunity, solicit input from covered stakeholders, which may take the form of a public hearing, a workshop, or the solicitation of written input.

(c) Needs assessment

(1) Requirement. The Administrator shall, in consultation with States, units of local government, Tribal representatives, and the Interagency Working Group, prepare, and include in the National Textile Circularity Strategy, a needs assessment that identifies the actions, data, and funding needed to implement the National Textile Circularity Strategy.

(2) Methodology for collecting data. In carrying out this subsection, the Administrator shall—

(A) develop a methodology to be used by the Administrator to collect data identified as needed in the needs assessment described in paragraph (1); and

(B) identify the resources needed to implement such methodology.

(3) Contents. The needs assessment described in paragraph (1) shall include—

(A) an identification of the types of data needed to implement the National Textile Circularity Strategy, including data relating to the scope and scale of textiles, disaggregated by material composition or product type, that are landfilled, combusted to recover energy, recovered, or exported;

(B) data collected during the preceding 5-year period by the Environmental Protection Agency, States, and industry on the generation and disposition, disaggregated by material composition or product type, of textiles, including textiles that are repaired, recycled, combusted to recover energy, landfilled, or exported, for each year in such 5-year period;

(C) an analysis of textile repair, textile reuse, textile recovery, textile recycling, and textile hauling within the United States, including at the local government level;

(D) an identification of entities involved with such textile repair, textile reuse, textile recovery, textile recycling, and textile hauling;

(E) an identification of Federal laws, and Federal financial assistance and incentives, relating to supporting textile repair, textile reuse, textile recovery, textile recycling, and textile hauling;

(F) a description of economic conditions relating to textile circularity and the potential to create or scale viable end-markets for pre-owned textiles, or textiles that are a result of textile recycling, in the States, regionally in the United States, and globally, including an analysis of the potential economic effect of such creation or scaling;

(G) an analysis of the barriers (including Federal, State, or local laws that present barriers, and any gaps in legal authority that present barriers) to implementation of the National Textile Circularity Strategy, or to scaling textile recycling, and potential solutions to such barriers, which may include—

(i) an analysis of the cost of recovering textiles and developing any infrastructure needed to implement the National Textile Circularity Strategy or scale textile recycling;

(ii) workforce needs; and

(iii) funding solutions; and

(H) an identification of any need by the public for education on textile circularity, and methods by which the Administrator may provide such education.

(d) Initial report to Congress. Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress the National Textile Circularity Strategy.

(e) Updates; annual reports. Not later than 1 year after the Administrator submits the National Textile Circularity Strategy under subsection (d), and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall—

(1) update the National Textile Circularity Strategy; and

(2) submit to Congress a report that includes—

(A) the updated National Textile Circularity Strategy; and

(B) any lessons learned from implementing the National Textile Circularity Strategy during the year prior to such report.

(f) Publication of information on textiles. The Administrator shall—

(1) on the date on which the Administrator submits to Congress the National Textile Circularity Strategy, publish on the website of the Environmental Protection Agency the data described in subsection (c)(3)(B) and the municipal solid waste estimation methods; and

(2) update and publish such data and any updated methodology at least once a year.