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Textiles: Second National Attitudes and Behaviours Survey 

Behavioural insight is a foundation of the EPA’s Circular Economy Programme, providing evidence to inform policy, behavioural change interventions and awareness campaigns.

The EPA contracted Ipsos B&A to carry out this quantitative research to provide current evidence and insights on incidences and influencing factors around textile consumption, care and discarding practices among the Irish public. The fieldwork for the online survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,069 adults ages 16+ was carried out in August 2024.

Click on the link below to read the report:

EPA Second National Textiles Survey

The report contains data and insights on the following:

  1.  Purchasing of Clothes
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  1.  Rewear of Clothes
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  1.  Care and Repair of Clothes
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  1.  Preparation of Clothes before Discarding
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  1.  Discarding of Textiles
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  2.  Discarding of Clothes (in focus)
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      7. Incentives & Climate Change  

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