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# Agenda

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

**Tuesday, September 21**

10:00 -      10:45am EDT (UTC-4)

**Plenary 1: Current landscape, bottlenecks, and critical gaps**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Marisa Adler,    Resource Recycling Systems (RRS)    

10:45am -      12:15pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Session 1: Boundary-Spanning Tools to Facilitate a CE for Textiles**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Shahana Althaf,   Yale University    

                              -       Cyndi Rhoades,   Worn Again Technologies    

                              -       Traci Kinden,   REvolve Waste    

                              -       Tonny Colyn,   The Salvation Army Canada & National Assoc Charitable Textile Recycling    

12:15 -      12:45pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Break**

12:45 -      2:00pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Session 2: Challenges with Collection, Reuse, Repair of Textiles**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Jana Hawley,   University of North Texas    

                              -       Nicole Bassett,   The Renewal Workshop    

                              -       Jackie King,   SMART    

                              -       Scott Cynamon,   Cyntex    

2:00 -      3:00pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Roundtable A: Data, Standards, & Terminology**

**Wednesday, September 22**

10:00 -      10:45am EDT (UTC-4)

**Plenary 2: Consumer Challenges and Opportunities**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Marci Zaroff,   ECOfashion Corp.    

10:45am -      12:15pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Session 3: Challenges to Mechanical and Chemical Recycling of Textiles**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Sonja Zak,   Lenzing    

                              -       Franco Rossi,   Aquafil    

                              -       Yong Li,   Eastman Chemical Company    

                              -       David Bender,   Circular Polymers    

                              -       Karla Magruder,   Accelerating Circularity    

                              -       Youjiang Wang,   Georgia Tech University    

12:15 -      12:45pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Break**

12:45 -      2:00pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Session 4: Environmental Impacts of Textiles**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Lars Fogh Mortensen,   European Environment Agency     

                              -       Kim Hiller,   Kansas State University    

                              -       Yuan Yao,   Yale University    

                              -       Jennifer Lynch,   NIST    

2:00 -      3:00pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Roundtable B: Reuse, Repair, and Recycling**

**Thursday, September 23**

10:00 -      10:45am EDT (UTC-4)

**Plenary 3: Role of Policy and Legislative Approaches**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Kirsi Niinimäki, Aalto University,     

10:45am -      12:15pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Session 5: Brand Responsibility and Best Practices**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Rachel Kibbe,   Circular Services Group    

                              -       Natalie Banakis,   Patagonia    

                              -       Katja Beyer,   Chemnitz University of Technology    

                              -       Carmen Gama,   Eileen Fisher    

                              -       Julie Brown,   EON    

12:15 -      12:45pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Break**

12:45 -      2:00pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Session 6: Legal and Regulatory Barriers and Opportunities**

**Speaker(s)**

                              -       Eric Nelson,   Circonomey Innovations    

                              -       Scott Cassel,   Product Stewardship Institute    

                              -       Joanne Brasch,   California Product Stewardship Council    

                              -       Julie Hughes,   US Fashion Industry Association     

2:00 -      3:00pm EDT (UTC-4)

**Roundtable C: Policy Approaches and Needs**

-  **‹** Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles 

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