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The Loop: Our Quarterly Newsletter
What we see on sorting floors and in sales markets, shared every quarter.
For years, used textiles have moved through systems few people get to look inside. The Loop is our attempt to change that. Each issue covers what we sort, where it goes, what’s working, and what we still can’t see.
01. Why We Write It?
Looper collects and sorts textiles across Europe and sells them to reuse and recycling partners in markets from Bucharest to Benin.
Along the way, we learn a lot: from our sorting teams, from the traders who buy our goods, and from recyclers trying to scale. The Loop is where we publish that first. It’s fact-based and plain, and when there are limits to what we know, we say so.
02. Every quarter, you’ll get.
Market deep-dives: what we learn on the ground in sales markets, from the traders, retailers and buyers who handle our goods.
Inside the sorting floor: how decisions get made across our 300+ sorting categories, and why they matter for what comes next.
The Loop in numbers: one figure from our operations, with the context to read it properly.
Industry and policy: what’s changing in EPR, textile-to-textile recycling and reuse, and what it means in practice.
Your questions, answered: FAQs on the topics we’re asked about most.
03. Who it’s for?
Brands and retailers, collectors and recyclers, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and anyone curious about what really happens to used clothing after collection.
04. A look at what we’ve covered.
[Q2 2025] Field, Flows and Forward Motion: Inside Asiyeye Market in Lomé, with a wholesaler who has been reselling sorted garments for over 15 years.
[Q3 2025] Making Room for What’s Real: The ecosystem gaps that keep textile-to-textile recycling stuck in pilot mode.
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