Partnership focuses on traceability, infrastructure assessment, and regulatory coordination across Ghana’s secondary textile economy.
Accra, Ghana
Landfills to Landmarks (L2L) and the Environmental Protection Authority of Ghana (EPA) have signed a three year Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen downstream management of post consumer textiles and support the development of circular textile infrastructure.
The agreement establishes a working framework linking regulatory coordination, traceability systems, market participation, and infrastructure assessment. The objective is to improve transparency and operational coordination across Ghana’s secondary textile economy while supporting national policy development.
Post consumer textiles move through a complex value chain involving importers, wholesalers, traders, repairers, recyclers, and emerging processing enterprises. Effective management of these flows requires consistent documentation, reliable sorting practices, and clearer visibility on downstream outcomes. Improved coordination helps responsible operators maintain compliance and provides stronger signals for investment in circular textile infrastructure.
The Memorandum of Understanding sets out four areas of collaboration.
The first focuses on supporting Ghana’s policy direction on Extended Producer Responsibility for textiles. L2L will contribute evidence development, technical input, and stakeholder engagement to inform policy implementation and regulatory design.
The second area covers the development of a national downstream traceability capability for post consumer textiles. The system will support participant registration, establish standard data fields, and enable consistent reporting formats. This will allow textile flows to be tracked from import through distribution to downstream outcomes while protecting commercially sensitive information through defined data governance safeguards.
A third workstream establishes a joint technical working group to assess infrastructure capacity across collection, sorting, safe handling, and end markets. The assessment will identify operational gaps and inform recommendations that support policy development and investment planning.
The fourth area focuses on coordinated market clean up actions and the exploration of climate finance opportunities linked to textile diversion and circular processing, in line with EPA guidance and relevant national processes.
The collaboration is structured around measurable outputs. These include standards for data capture, phased onboarding of market actors, pilot reporting dashboards, and structured insights to inform policy and investment decisions.
These issues will be further examined at the upcoming Landfills to Landmarks Summit, where regulators, industry participants, investors, and civil society will review next steps for standards development, financing pathways, climate alignment, and sector governance.
Organisations interested in contributing to the delivery agenda are invited to participate in the summit.
Further information and registration are available at:
About Landfills to Landmarks
Landfills to Landmarks works with regulators, industry participants, and research partners to advance circular textile systems through traceability, policy collaboration, and market coordination.
