The global textile fiber market, which is now estimated to be worth €270 billion, is an essential part of the global economic landscape. However, as textile production has doubled worldwide in the last 20 years, it is also an industry putting tremendous strain on our already dwindling virgin resources and compromising the health of our planet. Today, the textile industry is one of the largest contributors to global emissions. To create a circular textiles value chain, all stakeholders must collaborate to transform design and production processes, improve technological efficiencies, and alter the way consumers purchase, use, and dispose of textiles. When used textiles are collected, sorted, and recycled in a closed loop, they can reduce the environmental impact of the textile industry and create a more profitable and resilient business model. Over the last few decades, TOMRA has dedicated itself to the development of sensor-based collection and sorting solutions for plastic recycling. It continues to be committed to building on this proven technology by providing automated fiber sorting technology to bridge the gap between collected textile waste and the amount of it that gets recycled with emerging fiber-to-fiber recycling systems. TOMRA is dedicated not only to the further development of the technologies that enable fiber-to-fiber recycling, with the aim to eventually implement those advancements globally, but to the continuous collaboration with stakeholders across the value chain that is necessary to build a true circular value chain for textiles. This presentation will highlight both the recent developments in the field of sorting of textiles, but also discuss ongoing challenges and the need for collaboration to overcome these challenges.