In 2022, under Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), €150 million were allocated for the creation of Textile Hubs aimed at the recycling of textiles materials, both pre and post-consumer. The same year, the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition (MiTE) approved 23 projects with the intent of integrating the widespread network of SMEs engaged in the sorting and recycling of textile materials.

Over the course of the months that followed beneficiaries withdrew and new ones joined, changing the landscape of the initiatives.

sustainabilitylab.net, through the consultation of websites and press releases of the parties involved, has gathered information on the development of eight Textile Hubs.

• Prato, Tuscany, the facility managed by Alia Environmental Services has begun construction and is expected to have a sorting capacity of 33,000 tons of pre and post-consumer textile waste by 2026.
• Rho (Milan), Lombardy, the facility operated by Vesti Solidali, onlus social cooperative, has a yearly capacity of 22,000 tons per year in treatment of textile waste.
• Biella, Piedmont, hosts Magnolab established in 2022 by Marchi e Fildi in Cerrione, and a 2024 Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) approved public-private recycling hub in Cavaglià.
• Novara, Piedmont, IGERS has been commissioned to build a facility for the advanced recovery of textile materials in San Pietro Mosezzo.
• Sant’Urbano (Padua), Veneto, a plant to fray and recover fibers to be returned to textile companies in being built by Gea-Greenthesis.
• Desenzano del Garda (Brescia), Lombardy, R I.TE.CA deals with the recycling of textile waste, its recovery, trade, and the storage of textile waste with waste baling.
• Rovello Porro (Como), Lombardy: hosts SECO, the first mechanized plant in Italy. The facility aims to recycle 100% of the components of discarded mattresses.
• Treviso, Veneto: DP Company develops innovative sound-absorbing and/or heat-insulating solutions made from recycled materials such as scraps from textile processing, used clothing and biopolymers. 
  
  Additional information on the mapped initiatives can be found on the PNRR: textile recycling plants in Italy. Where do we stand? article.