India generates 70.73 lakh tonnes of textile waste annually, much of which lacks productive reuse and is treated mainly as an environmental problem, says a Ministry of Textiles report.
At MSME Sparks 2026, a five-day YourStory event spotlighting India's MSME ecosystem, Devansh Peshin, Regional Program Manager at Enviu, argued the issue is also a business opportunity and outlined barriers to scaling circular solutions.
Enviu, headquartered in the Netherlands, runs programs across Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and East Africa.
At the event, Peshin reviewed four years of fieldwork and the policy changes still needed.
Identifying the gaps
