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The idea of the Circular Economy is recent, and various industries apply it differently. The textile sector is primarily informal and unstructured with no particular rules, transparency, and followup in handling waste. This research explores a textile recovery factory and follows its material chain to establish where old textiles go, where they end up, what they become, and if they can be recycled into the circular economy. This research uses Material Flow Analysis (MFA) to determine problems in textile recycling, showing where processing, sorting, and market absorption are not working. It factors in how the facility keeps textiles from going to landfills, saves greenhouse gases, and increases waste recovery. The research also suggests how to improve its performance under different circumstances. It factors in several measures—better sorting, increasing cooperation with recyclers, and minimizing residual material—to see how they affect efficiency and emissions saving. The findings indicate the significance of sustaining policies, regulated trade, and investment within recycling facilities processing valuable materials. Inefficient accountability of stakeholders, low processing standards, and weak circular textile markets are key challenges for waste management. With microplastic contamination of garments rapidly becoming an emerging problem, the study calls for the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy for textiles, encouraging fiber-to-fiber recycling, and endorsing market interventions that stimulate circular textile behavior. This study is intended to further enhance sustainable waste treatment of textiles by developing traceability, enforcement, and recovery mechanisms so that textiles should not tread the same route as plastic waste but that of a circular economy.
Key words: Material Flow Analysis, Textile Waste Management, Circular Economy, Policies in Textile Waste Management, Recycling Infrastructure
