Mexico Textile Recycling Market Overview, 2029

A growing environmental awareness in Mexico is shifting its textile recycling market toward innovation and circular economy practices. It can also provide local jobs in the collection, sorting, and processing of waste materials in Mexico, hence boosting its economy. This allows organizations to concentrate on the field of recycling for the benefit of various socially responsible initiatives aimed at helping the poorest of the poor and ending the scourges prevailed upon people by the fashion industry. This also raises awareness among people to make more sustainable choices and hence helps in extending the life of their clothes. Textile recycling enables circular economy principles in closing the loop of the textile supply chain and encourages garment reuse, repair, and repurpose of garments and fabrics. This is how textile recycling can be done upholstery, clothing, and bedding can be transformed into insulation or even a new garment and carpet padding. In this way, the textile industry achieves higher environmental friendliness and higher resource efficiency. The current consumer demand for green goods is on the increase, and hence so are textile recycling initiatives. The government and other bodies around the world are putting stringent regulations in place to encourage recycling and decrease textile wastes. Improvements in technology related to recycling procedures have equally played a very key role. These include efficient ways through which used textiles can be transformed into raw materials for new products. This has created the concept of a circular economy. In this case, there are increasing collaborations between fashion brands and those involved in textile recycling. Karat is a company specialized in textile waste management and recycling. Mainly, it focuses on the transformation of post-consumer textiles into materials to be used again. Ecovest, this firm provides all-rounded solutions in recycling, thereby collecting and processing textile wastes with great devotion to sustainability.

According to the research report, "Mexico Textile Recycling Market Outlook, 2029," published by Bonafide Research, the Mexico textile recycling market is anticipated to add to more than USD 30 Million by 2024–29. The prospects of the textile recycling market in Mexico are bright, driven by environmental awareness, economic rationale, and technology. Increasing consumer awareness about sustainability and the environment, coupled with the serious concerns associated with the disposal of textile waste, makes a case for its recycled products in demand. At the same time, government policies aimed at reducing waste and encouraging recycling practices help drive this shift. It can also be subject to economic factors, recycling many textiles is in many cases also less expensive than manufacturing new materials, particularly with the fluctuation in raw material prices. Such new innovations in technology, such as advanced sorting systems and chemical recycling processes, improve both the efficiency and quality of the recycled textiles. This makes the process of recycling more viable and more competitive in the textile industry. Furthermore, the enhancement of capacity in recycling infrastructure and collection systems is equally important for dealing with the increased volumes of waste effectively. Another favorable aspect is that the Mexican fashion industry is increasingly committed to being more sustainable, which will generate demand for recovered textiles, as well as both domestic and international sales. However, it has a challenge in ensuring quality from recovered materials and enhancing consumer education on the numerous benefits accrued from recycling textiles. Better technology and awareness through campaigns should be undertaken to clear these issues in the market. Support for the industry is through initiatives by both government and the private sector. Policies of incentives and grant making facilities for recycling projects will create investment. Company-NGO-government body cooperation can increase the effectiveness of operational recycling programs and spur innovation.

Cotton is the dominant material segment for the Mexican textile recycling industry. It is the natural fiber and relatively easy to recycle mechanically. The procedure includes shredding the fabric, eliminating the contaminates and spinning the fibers once more in the form of new yarn. The dominance of Cotton in the market is due to its vast applicability and established recycling processes that handle this single-fiber structure quite efficiently. In addition, more than half the volume recovered has been cotton textiles, and the Mexican infrastructure is ideally suited to the material. A further developing area for the overall textile content is that of Polyester and Polyester Fiber. Polyester is a synthetic fiber and, because of its chemical attributes and blending potential with other fibers, has posed particular problems in the recycling of them. Though as a result of technology, recycling technologies associated with polyester are becoming more efficient in themselves, the increase in consumption of products made from recycled polyester drastically scales up demand. The novel concepts in chemical recycling not only open avenues for the processing of polyester into high-quality recycled fibers, but they also widen the markets even more. Nylon and Nylon Fiber—this refers to fabrics made out of nylon, which is a synthetic polymer. The chemical structure of nylon is more complex and thus less recycled compared to cotton and polyester. Efforts are now aimed at how to recycle as technology advances. Wool recycling is the process in which woollen fibers are reclaimed from worn-out clothes and then processed afresh. Currently, the process of recycling wool is not as widespread as that of cotton and polyester, due to its difficulty in the sorting and processing processes.

The apparel sector has become the leading segment in the Mexican textile recycling market. This due to the voluminous waste coming from clothes and fashion items which make up a significant share of all types of textile wastes. Compared with other streams, apparel waste is, therefore, relatively easier to collect and process because of a higher rate of turnover and well-established infrastructure for used garments. Material that is most often converted into new textiles or other products by mechanical recycling methods emanates from these streams included apparel waste forms the most prominent segment in Mexico's landscape of recycling. Home Furnishing Waste is the growing segment within the Mexican textile recycling market. This includes textiles from furniture, curtains, and other home furnishing. This segment is exhibiting growth as a result of increasing consumer awareness about sustainability and the wish to recycle household textiles. Advanced technology for recycling makes it easy to process home furnishing waste, increasing its rate of recycling. As households and businesses show an interest in sustainability, volumes of home furnishing waste entering the recycling stream will increase. Automotive Waste are textiles from vehicle interiors upholstery and carpets. In relation to apparel and home furnishing waste, this segment is smaller, principally since the automotive textiles are quite specialized and their recycling is complex. Nevertheless, there is a growth potential in this area as the automotive sector gears toward sustainability and the recycling regulations become more stringent.

Post-consumer textile waste is the leading and growing segment in Mexico's textile recycling market. The post-consumer textile waste category includes discards of clothes and other kinds of textiles that are not needed or wanted by consumers. The reasons behind the dominance of this category within the post-consumer textiles segment are its high volume and enhanced awareness about sustainable waste management practices. This will be driven by increasing consumer awareness of the natural environment and impacts from textile wastes, coupled with increasing recycling programs. Mexico is progressively developing an infrastructure oriented to the processing of post-consumer waste through mechanical and chemical recycling methods into new products. Increasing fashion consumption and discard rates also boost this segment. Pre-Consumer Textile Wastes are discarded textiles during the manufacturing process, for example, cuttings, defects, unsold stock. Compared to post-consumer waste, this segment is relatively less prominent but of high quality. Most of the time, pre-consumer waste includes textiles that are still in good condition and can easily be recycled or reused. Pre-consumer waste recycling is also growing as manufacturers and brands look to clean up their sustainability credentials and reduce the amount of waste along their supply chains. Because it is relatively cleaner and more homogeneous therefore, easier to process and recycle than post-consumer waste this sector enjoys advantages.



Mechanical recycling currently dominates the textile recycling market in Mexico. The process mechanically breaks down and re-spins textiles into new fibers, precisely without changing their chemical structure. It is the most well-established and widely applied technique, precisely due to its relatively uncomplicated process and lower costs compared to chemical recycling. Mechanical recycling works well with large volumes, especially when made from single-fiber types like cotton. One of the main advantages associated with it is that it is an already developed technology with well-established infrastructure, and this therefore explains the dominance in the market. It's Chemical Recycling that forms the growing segment within Mexico's textile recycling market. It is based on the breaking down of the chemical structure of textiles to recover raw materials so that raw materials can be used for the production of new fibers. This technique also becomes very useful when processing complex textile blends and synthetic fibers that are difficult or impossible to process with mechanical methods. Though more complex and costly than mechanical recycling, evolving technology makes it ever more feasible and effective. Growth in chemical recycling comes as a result of growing demands for better recyclables and an expanded product mix of textiles processed.

Considered in this report
• Historic year: 2018
• Base year: 2023
• Estimated year: 2024
• Forecast year: 2029

Aspects covered in this report
• Textile Recycling market Outlook with its value and forecast along with its segments
• Various drivers and challenges
• On-going trends and developments
• Top profiled companies
• Strategic recommendation

By Material
• Cotton
• Polyester & Polyester Fiber
• Nylon & Nylon Fiber
• Wool
• Others

By Source
• Apparel Waste
• Home Furnishing Waste
• Automotive Waste
• Others

By End-Use Industry
• Apparel
• Home Furnishings
• Industrial & Institutional
• Others

By Textile Waste
• Post-consumer
• Pre-consumer

By Process
• Mechanical
• Chemicals

The approach of the report:
This report consists of a combined approach of primary and secondary research. Initially, secondary research was used to get an understanding of the market and list the companies that are present in it. The secondary research consists of third-party sources such as press releases, annual reports of companies, and government-generated reports and databases. After gathering the data from secondary sources, primary research was conducted by conducting telephone interviews with the leading players about how the market is functioning and then conducting trade calls with dealers and distributors of the market. Post this; we have started making primary calls to consumers by equally segmenting them in regional aspects, tier aspects, age group, and gender. Once we have primary data with us, we can start verifying the details obtained from secondary sources.

Intended audience
This report can be useful to industry consultants, manufacturers, suppliers, associations, and organizations related to the Textile Recycling industry, government bodies, and other stakeholders to align their market-centric strategies. In addition to marketing and presentations, it will also increase competitive knowledge about the industry.