World of Waste is a public online platform that consolidates research and datasets to map global textile-waste hotspots, making country-level estimates and source reports available to stakeholders to identify and utilise textile waste.
Circularity Relevance
Core
The platform is explicitly designed to enable circular outcomes in textiles by mapping waste availability and hotspots (source: World of Waste About page).
Circular Role
SupportEnabler
World of Waste provides consolidated data and mapping to support industry stakeholders rather than directly conducting resale, collection or recycling operations.
Circular Type
Informational
• Data Resources
The platform provides data resources and country project pages (datasets, methodologies and source reports) to inform stakeholders; classification based on About page and country project pages.
R Strategy
R3 - Reuse, R8 - Recycle, R7 - Repurpose
Primary strategies chosen because the tool maps textile waste availability to enable reuse/redistribution (R3) and recycling/resource recovery (R8). Repurposing (R7) is a supported secondary use. Assigned with medium confidence because the site describes enabling use of waste but does not prescribe specific end-use strategies for each dataset.
Circular Business Model
Unknown
Website provides a free informational tool and does not present a commercial circular business model (e.g., resale, take-back). Classified as Unknown for business model as the platform is primarily an informational resource.
Organisational Type
NonProfit
Platform is co-developed by Fashion for Good and partners including Laudes Foundation and IDH. Fashion for Good describes itself as an 'Innovation Platform' and partners are foundations/non-profit organisations; inferred organisational type as NonProfit (Medium confidence).
Sector
Fashion & Textiles, Waste Management & Recycling
Website and partner list show the platform specifically targets textile waste and was developed by Fashion for Good with textile-industry partners.
Geographical Reach
Global
• Unknown
The platform lists multiple countries across continents and the About page describes consolidated research across regions (see country project pages).
Hardware Component
None
Platform is a web-based data and mapping tool; no specialised physical hardware is described on the site.
Tech Map Relevance
World of Waste is an online data platform explicitly designed to support circularity in textiles by mapping global textile waste hotspots (source: World of Waste About page) and is covered in multiple industry press releases (Fashion for Good, Sourcing Journal).
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