Hur kan ett kommunalt ansvar för insamling av textilier bidra till att skapa mer hållbara textilflöden? - En applicering av framtidsscenario på Malmöregionen

Sammanfattning: The Swedish consumers consumed in 2014 13.1 kilo textilies, of this 8 kilogram was dicarded via household waste and used for energy production. European Union’s waste hierarchy avocates a higher rate of reuse and recycling for a more sustainable textile flow. The Swedish goverment is, therefor, working toward new laws and guidelines which can lead to an expanded responsibility for the municipalities in Sweden. This study examins how this duty can be used for a higher rate of reused and recycled material and if the collection of textilies by the municipalitys can be used in a more local textile flow in the Malmö region. By using top to bottom flowcharts this studie shows how the locally collected textilies from consumers are used. The results shows that most collectors are charitable organizations but there is a growing part of textilies collected by producers. There is no alternatives for local recycling but the chartable organizations reuse between 1 to 30 %, mostly by selling it back to consumers. The rest of the material is sold to sortingoperators located in Europe. After the sorting the material has a high rate of reuse and recycling but there are some problems with transparency on the final treatment. The resulat also shows by applying a future scenario created by Avfall Sverige on a top up bottom flowchart including the textilieflows that can fall under the responsobility of the municipalitys how the future textilieflow can looks like. It shows that four operators will loose what looks like their only inflow of textilies. Sysav is the operator in carge of waste manegement in the region. They will get more flows of textilies from recyclingsstations and recycling centers. The future rate of reuse and recycling along collected textilies is depending on the sortingoparator that Sysav choose as partner. The municipalitys can use the expanding recopnsiblity by choosing partners with high rate of reuse and recycling.Reuseble textilies can also be used locally trough inovartive projects and support for the local reperation of textilies This can lead to more sustaible textilies flows from and inside Malmö Seens most of the reuse and recycling happens after the material is professionaly sorted would the access to this kind of sorting nearby possible change the oppotunity for local reuse and recycling. The results of this study is adabtily to other areas in Sweden and recommends that future studies look at how other socioeconomic value is effected by changes in the reponsibilty of collecting textilie.