here is a link to a video “Textile recycling solutions in Finland” which is produced in co-operation of Business Finland, Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce, Ministry of the Environment, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE. It is a part of series that share best practices and technology solutions from Finland for all interested parties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfMbrfCy_3U&t=7s
Month December 2021
FI – Textile flows in Finland 2019
Survey by Helena Dahlbo, Aija Rautiainen, Hannu Savolainen (SYKE), Pauliina Oksanen, Piia Nurmi, Marketta Virta (TURKU UAS) and Oskari Pokela (LSJH), published by Turku University of Applied Sciences
Turku 2021, ISBN 978-952-216-787-3 (pdf), ISSN 1459-7764 (electronic).
http://julkaisut.turkuamk.fi/isbn9789522167873.p
From the Foreword:
“The survey followed the methodology developed in several previous Nordic studies, the most recent of them being “Mapping of textile flows in Denmark” by Watson et al. (2018). In the beginning of the project, we were given valuable help and information on the details of the methodology and data sources by David Watson from PlanMiljö, Denmark. The data sources used for the survey included various statistics, with which guidance was received from Juha Espo from Statistics Finland. In addition to statistics, data and information was gathered from a variety of operators within the textile value chain by questionnaires and interviews.”
From the Executive Summary: “The total consumption of new textile products, both public and households, is 11.3 kg/capita. Household consumption dominates the use of clothes and household textiles and similar textiles. Households’ share of the consumption is approximately 51 906 tonnes (83%) (Figure 4) of the overall supply. This shows that within one year, an average Finn purchased 7.4 kg of clothes and 2 kg of household textiles, equaling to 9.4 kg of new textiles for private use. … About 44% of the textiles consumed by households were separately collected as end-of-life textiles in 2019… . The textiles separately collected by private collectors, charity organizations and municipal waste companies add up to almost 23 000 tonnes in 2019. All in all, 9 990 tonnes of used textiles from households
were being reused in 2019, which is around 1.8 kg per capita.”
Second Hand Counts 