SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee recently approved the Strategies to Eliminate Waste and Accelerate Recycling Development (STEWARD) Act, which aims to improve data collecting and monitor textile waste and recycling. On February 5, 2025, the Committee unanimously adopted the Act.

The STEWARD Act is regarded as a continuation of earlier laws that improved packaging, plastics, and organic waste recycling infrastructure and accountability procedures. In an effort to improve textile recycling, the law also suggests new data collection guidelines.

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The legislation highlights on the need for a more extensive data collection and reporting mechanism. It introduces key metrics that enable proper monitoring of materials diverted from landfills. In addition to giving optional data exchange, the measure advocates providing technical support to state and municipal governments with the purpose of improving recycling and composting rates.

The application of the Act could foster circular strategies within the textile sector.

The major alliance of business executives, American Circular Textiles (ACT), praised the committee for supporting the legislation.