Textile Waste Reduction Act

In this Act:

(1) Administrator. The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

(2) Advisory Board. The term Advisory Board means the Advisory Board to the Interagency Working Group established under section 5.

(3) Covered stakeholder. The term covered stakeholder means a representative of—

(A) an industry that has expertise in textile circularity or a related field;

(B) a research community that has expertise in textile circularity or a related field;

(C) a nongovernmental organization that has expertise in textile circularity or a related field;

(D) a State government;

(E) a local government; or

(F) a Tribal Government.

(4) Interagency Working Group. The term Interagency Working Group means the Interagency Working Group on Textile Circularity established under section 4.

(5) Recover. The term recover, with respect to a textile, means the process of collecting, sorting, and processing textile waste for textile repair, textile reuse, or textile recycling.

(6) State. The term State means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States.

(7) Textile. The term textile—

(A) means an item made in whole or in part from textile material; and

(B) does not include an item, made in whole or in part from textile material, that is—

(i) a reusable product designed to collect or absorb urine or feces; or

(ii) a mattress or piece of furniture.

(8) Textile circularity. The term textile circularity—

(A) means a system of production (including design) and management of textiles that minimizes the generation of textile waste, maximizes the use of resources (such as energy or water), and keeps textiles in circulation for as long as possible; and

(B) includes textile repair, textile reuse, and textile recycling.

(9) Textile material. The term textile material means natural or synthetic fiber, yarn, or fabric, including leather, cotton, silk, jute, hemp, wool, viscose, nylon, and polyester.

(10) Textile producer. The term textile producer means a person who manufactures a textile and who owns or is the licensee of the brand or trademark under which that textile is offered for sale in, distributed for sale into, or sold in a State.

(11) Textile recycling. The term textile recycling means the process of using recovered textiles as raw materials in the production of new textiles.

(12) Textile reuse. The term textile reuse means the use of a pre-owned textile without breaking such textile down into the raw materials of such textile.

(13) Textile waste. The term textile waste—

(A) means any textile or textile material that is discarded, including a textile or textile material discarded by the textile industry or a consumer; and

(B) does not include a textile or textile material that has been recovered.

(14) Tribal Government. The term Tribal Government means the government of an Indian Tribe, as such term is defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).

(15) Tribal representative. The term Tribal representative means a representative of—

(A) an Indian Tribe, as such term is defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304); or

(B) a Native Hawaiian organization, as such term is defined in section 3 of the NATIVE Act (25 U.S.C. 4352).