ēkotrace to Community
The public doorway for households, op shops, local hosts, education, warm introductions and honest expressions of interest.
You are hereēkot circular solutions · Aotearoa
Make circularity
ordinary.
Community is where a good intention becomes a local habit — and where local action connects to evidence a council, brand or neighbour can trust.
For people, places and organisations across Aotearoa and internationally.
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A living network
not a mailing list
not a mailing list
107,000t
The reason to join
Textiles sent to landfill in New Zealand, every year.
That is 78% of generated textiles — a 2026 estimate from Eunomia / Textile Advisory Group. The number is large. The response can be personal, practical and measurable.
Source
Eunomia / Textile Advisory Group
2026 estimate
Eunomia / Textile Advisory Group
2026 estimate
A connected approach
Change feels closer
when the system does too.
There is no single hero in a circular economy. A person needs a place to drop. A host needs a pathway. A brand needs credible evidence. Community is the layer that helps those moments meet.
ēkotrace
The enterprise evidence layer for organisations: chain of custody, reporting and reviewable circular outcomes.
Explore the evidence layerThe household pathway now lives here
A simpler front door
for people.
Households should not need to understand the whole system before taking one useful step. Community brings the learn, hand-off and follow-the-evidence concepts together in one place.
Find a hand-off
Explore local collection or partner pathways when they are confirmed. Availability remains dependent on place, material and partner agreement.
Understand the next step
Learn what sorting, preparation and recovery may involve without turning a proposed pathway into a guaranteed outcome.
Follow recorded evidence
Where a pilot record exists, use ēkotrace to see the reviewable hand-offs and reported destination behind the story.
For op shops and collection partners
Ready to record
a collection?
Use the simple partner view to scan a collection label, add its weight and save it. You do not need to understand our internal system or sorting equipment.
Record a collection
Partner sign-in is required. Internal team members can still open the full dashboard.
less waste · more evidence · closer loops · shared action · less waste · more evidence ·
Choose your doorway
There is a place
for your kind of action.
Start with what is realistic for you now. We will help make the next introduction warm, specific and useful — no grand promises required.
International partner pathway
Exploring a European textile evidence trial.
We are open to conversations with collection, sorting, processing, research and public-interest organisations about a bounded textile pilot. This is an invitation to shape a trial — not a claim that ēkot operates a European facility or certified pathway.
Your next useful step
Bring your
maybe.
Tell us what you are curious about. This is an expression of interest, not a commitment. We read every note and reply with the most practical next step.
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Individuals can advocate, introduce or learn.
02Organisations can host a point, explore a pilot or connect education.
The ordinary future
It starts with a conversation
near you.
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