T2T Pre-Assessment Questionnaire

The T2T (textile-to-textile) Pre-Assessment Questionnaire is a standardised due diligence and assessment framework developed by Fashion for Good in collaboration with Textile Exchange to streamline communication between textile-to-textile recycling technologies, brands and manufacturers. It establishes a common evaluation language across the industry, promoting efficiency, consistency, and trust between brands and recyclers.

Despite growing industry commitment to recycled content, brands and recyclers were struggling with a significant data gap. Brands lacked a consistent way to evaluatetechnology partners, while recyclers were overwhelmed by ad-hoc, duplicative information requests from multiple brands, each with different formats and requirements. The questionnaire was developed to solve both problems at once and foster collaboration and possible future business partnerships.

The tool is designed for two audiences: brands and manufacturers looking to identify and de-risk textile-to-textile recycling technology partnerships, and recyclers seeking to communicate their capabilities efficiently to multiple potential partners through a single, standardised document.

Fashion for Good, in collaboration withTextile Exchange, built the framework through an iterative, collaborative process involving multiple rounds of feedback from leading brands, recycling technologies and providers, ensuring the tool is both rigorous enough to be meaningful and practical enough to be widely adopted.

For brands, it reduces the time and cost of repetitive one-to-one interactions and enables faster, data-driven technology evaluation. For recyclers, it replaces dozens of varying requests with one comprehensive document aligned to industry-standard expectations, reducing workload while offering direct insight into brand sustainability targets.

Not necessarily overnight, but it’s designed to significantly reduce them. Rather than reacting to each brand’s requirements, recyclers complete this one standardised questionnaire to cover the core due diligence needs shared across the industry. Recyclers can then proactively bring that ready-made profile to new brand conversations, removing the burden of repetitive, fragmented requests.

The questionnaire captures what brands expect  to know when evaluating a technology partner, covering areas such as environmental impact, technical performance, scalability, and economic feasibility. It’s structured and modular, so you’ll know exactly what’s expected upfront. Disclaimer: All information exchanged remains confidential between the parties involved.

The questionnaire is not intended to provide a final assessment of recyclers or a definitive basis for selection. Instead, it serves as a structured starting point, offering transparent insights into each provider’s environmental impact, technical performance, and commercial readiness. This helps brands and manufacturers identify relevant technology partners and supports more informed discussions, guiding further engagement, validation, and testing.

The framework acts as a risk-filtering mechanism, surfacing red flags early and helping your teams ask the right questions before committing to a partnership. Because it was developed collaboratively with leading brands and recyclers, it reflects real-world due diligence needs rather than theoretical ones.

The T2T Pre-Assessment Questionnaire is structured in a two-tier format to support a staged engagement with brands and manufacturers: Priority 1 Questions are used in the initial interaction with recyclers to quickly assess fundamental fit and identify potential showstoppers. Priority 2 Questions are reserved for more in-depth and confidential discussions, typically in follow-up meetings. These questions allow for a deeper exploration of technical capabilities, environmental performance, and operational readiness, once a stronger relationship has been established.