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119-hr-10454119th CongressWALLET

Textile Waste Reduction Act

Sponsored By: Representative Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]

Introduced

Summary

National Textile Circularity Strategy would direct the Environmental Protection Agency to build a national plan to reduce textile waste and keep textiles in use through repair, reuse, and recycling. It would also require EPA to publish data, identify federal funding opportunities, and coordinate action across agencies through a new Interagency Working Group and an Advisory Board.

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  • States, local governments, and Tribal representatives would be part of the Strategy's needs assessment and get Strategy data plus municipal solid waste estimation methods that EPA must publish and update annually.
  • Producers, retailers, recyclers, repair groups, researchers, and nongovernmental organizations would have formal roles through covered stakeholder processes and an Advisory Board that meets at least twice per year with two-year member terms.
  • An Interagency Working Group chaired by EPA and including agencies such as the Department of Energy, the Federal Trade Commission, and the National Science Foundation would develop common definitions, share data, and report to Congress at least once every two years.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

National textile circularity plan

This bill would require the EPA to write a National Textile Circularity Strategy to reduce textile waste. The public would get at least 60 days to comment. The EPA would deliver the first plan to Congress within 2 years and then update and report every year. The plan would include a needs assessment with five years of prior data by material and product type and EPA would publish the data and its municipal solid waste methods on its website at least once a year.

New federal coordination and advisory board

This bill would create an Interagency Working Group to coordinate federal work on textile circularity. Agencies would sign a charter within 225 days and then name staff with authority to help; the EPA member would chair the group. The Group would report to Congress within a year of starting and at least once every two years. The IWG Chair would set up an Advisory Board within 270 days; the Board would include industry, recyclers, academics, NGOs, and government members, meet at least twice a year, and have voting members with two‑year terms; the Board would end 10 years after enactment.

EPA rule power and coverage rules

This bill would let the EPA make rules to promote textile repair, reuse, recovery, and recycling. It would add definitions for 'textile', 'textile producer', and 'textile waste'. The definition of 'textile' would exclude mattresses, furniture, and some reusable medical collection products. Those new rules and definitions would support circularity but would also allow EPA to set requirements that could raise compliance costs for producers and other businesses.

Federal textile funding published online

This bill would require EPA to identify federal grants, loans, subsidies, and other funding that support textile recycling, reuse, and recovery. The EPA would post that information on its website and update it at least twice each year. The bill would not create new money; it would just make funding opportunities easier to find for governments, nonprofits, and businesses.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]

ME • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Sydney [D-CA-37]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 9/16/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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