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Apparel and footwear and Waste and recycling

Apparel and footwear buys from Waste and recycling; apparel and footwear depends on waste and recycling.

Apparel and footwear (industry) and Waste and recycling (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.9 per ₹100 · Apparel and footwear buys from Waste and recycling

Apparel and footwear buys goods or services from Waste and recycling; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.9 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.9 of every ₹100 of Apparel and footwear output, all rounds
  • ₹0.3 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 1 of 5 · Waste and recycling → Apparel and footwear

1 of the enterprise types in Apparel and footwear depend on waste and recycling.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Resale platforms, collectors and textile recyclers: collection and sorting (criticality 1 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.