This article addresses the question of whether laundry waste from textile services is suitable as a potential input stream for textile recycling. Influencing factors are analysed on the basis of 7000+ products specific to the input. While mechanical recycling is currently the dominant form of recycling, chemical recycling is becoming increasingly important (Köhler et al. in Circular economy perspectives in the EU textile sector, JRC technical report, final report, 2021). As part of a research project by the Center Textile Logistics (CTL), the chemical recycling of laundry waste was specifically analysed together with partners from industry and research. Due to the process flows in laundries, it is possible to feed specific fractions of laundry waste into suitable material recycling processes as an input stream. In this research project, these are fractions with a predominant (>50%) high cotton fibre content from product categories such as hotel and catering linen.