Textile Waste Reduction Act

This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take actions, including writing regulations, to keep clothing and other textiles in use longer through repair, reuse, and recycling. The EPA would create a National Textile Circularity Strategy with at least 60 days of public comment, a needs assessment on data, funding, and barriers, and would submit it to Congress within 2 years and update it each year. The bill creates an Interagency Working Group of federal agencies, chaired by the EPA, and an Advisory Board of industry, recycling, academic, nonprofit, and government members that would end after 10 years. The EPA would also publish textile waste data and information about available federal grants, loans, and other funding on its website.

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Sponsors

• Chellie Pingree Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors