Sustainable Performance Assessment of Textile and Apparel Industry in a Circular Context

The textile industry plays an important role in meeting human clothing needs and driving economic growth. However, it also has adverse environmental impacts. This chapter emphasizes the importance of circular economy (CE) principles in the textile industry and the need for performance assessment to measure their effectiveness. A review of the literature identifies a gap in assessing CE performance in the textile industry. To address this issue, the purpose of this chapter is to suggest a framework that can be utilized to assess the performance of textile companies. For this purpose, the criteria set has been reviewed to determine the indicators affecting the performance of a company operating in the textile industry. Then, the fuzzy DEMATEL technique was chosen to identify the cause-and-effect connections among the criteria. Finally, the weightings of the criteria were found using the fuzzy Best-Worst method (BWM) to indicate the roadmap for performance assessment. The findings contribute to understanding CE performance in the textile industry and provide insights for practitioners and policymakers to assess and improve CE implementation. This research can also serve as a reference for future studies in other industries aiming to bridge the literature gap and advance CE practices in the textile industry through effective performance assessment.