2026-05-20 · percent of textile waste fate
Clothing waste is mostly landfilled
Cheap garments accelerate turnover. Recycling fibers at scale still lags.
Planetary boundaries love waffle charts — one cell is a fixed sip of the whole resource. This grid divides textile waste streams (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Landfill / incineration and Reuse + recycle — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of textile waste fate (0.1% of textile waste streams) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from Ellen MacArthur textiles put Landfill / incineration at 73% of textile waste streams and Reuse + recycle at 27% — about 100 percent of textile waste fate in this edition's rounding.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation / UNEP textile circularity estimates.
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-05-20-fast-fashion-waste