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Rant Control / Shein Circularity

30 March 2026

 11 minutes

Rise and Shein: The Circularity Report That Laundered a Business Model in Plain Sight

Corporate sustainability language has evolved beyond grand ecological promises into something harder to challenge—the rhetoric of everyday pragmatism and consumer common sense.

When a fashion retailer surveys its own customers about circularity and finds the results flattering, the question is whether the method was built to inquire or to reassure. Shein's 2025 Global Circularity Study, spanning 21 markets and 15,461 voluntary respondents, arrives at conclusions so convenient they warrant examination on structural, not just factual, grounds.

  • Subir Ghosh
 Commentary
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Event Roundup / Yarn Expo Report
The textiles industry's most consequential transition is not happening in boardrooms but on sourcing floors, where sustainable fibres are steadily displacing conventional ones as the benchmark of quality.

Textiles Industry Quietly Rewriting what Innovation Means

  • Special Correspondent

30 March 2026
 
ITMA 2027
CIRCULARITY / RECYCLING / SECONDS / WASTE
The materials entering textile recovery systems were designed for performance and price, not recoverability—a contradiction that sorting technology alone cannot resolve, regardless of its sophistication.

The Recycling Plant Cannot Fix What the Factory Got Wrong

Textile recovery infrastructure in the United States is expanding, but remains uneven in scale and capability. Garment quality has declined, fibre complexity has increased, and industry-wide standardisation remains limited across the value chain—widening the gap between circularity ambition and material reality that recycling technology alone cannot close.

Subir Ghosh
 
FLASHPOINT: CLIMATE
Decarbonisation / AII Benchmark
AI-Generated / Reve

Lack of Clear Energy Performance Standards Slows Fashion Decarbonisation, New Industry Benchmark Framework Indicates

  • Staff Writer
 Update

13 March 2026

The Apparel Impact Institute (AII) has launched the Energy and Carbon Benchmark, a new tool designed to measure energy use and emissions across textile manufacturing processes. Developed with industry partners, it establishes process-level metrics to compare facilities, track performance over time, and guide collective decarbonisation efforts across the global fashion supply chain.

China Trends / Growth Story
Urban households generated substantially higher carbon emissions than rural households due to significantly higher clothing consumption levels.

Household Demand and Exports Drove Most of China’s Textile Emissions Growth, New Sector Analysis Finds

  • Staff Writer
 Update

3 March 2026

China’s textile and apparel industry emissions were driven largely by household consumption and exports between 2000 and 2018, according to new modelling research. The study found that integrating renewable energy adoption with expanded clothing recycling could curb long-term emissions growth across interconnected supply chains while supporting continued industrial development.

 
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FOCUS: COTTON
Microscopic analysis of mulberry silk fibres indicates that their distinctive performance characteristics stem from a unique natural architecture combining triangular cross-sections and smooth protein surfaces.

Mulberry Silk’s Triangular Fibre Structure Produces Its Signature Soft Lustre and Optical Glow, Scientific Report Shows

A scientific report has examined the microscopic structure and physicochemical properties of mulberry silk, explaining why the fibre displays distinctive lustre, smoothness and skin compatibility. Using microscopy and biomedical research, the analysis describes how silk’s natural microstructure influences optical reflection, friction behaviour, moisture absorption and potential applications in textiles, beauty and biomedical materials.

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Highlights: Sea Change

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Mattias Wallander
Mattias Wallander
Chief Executive Officer
USAgain
The real hurdle isn't the map, but the fragmented municipal governance: complex, varying permit costs and restrictive zoning are barriers to expansion. If local governments can align on model ordinances and move away from restrictive industrial-only zoning, the 13% yearover- year growth seen in France may be possible in California.
MORE: California’s Textile EPR Ambition Hinges on Infrastructure and Local Regulation

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Ripple Patel
Ripple Patel
Managing Director
Fiotex Cotspin Pvt Ltd
Cotton is a cash crop and has always given better profitability compared to others like peanuts. Before 2002, we had local varieties like Shankar-6. Yields were low, but returns were higher than other crops. In 2002–03, when BT cotton was introduced, it doubled yields from 250–300 kg per hectare to about 500 kg. Costs rose only 20–30%. Farmers prospered in those years.
MORE: Frayed Futures: India’s Cotton Crop Unspooling Fast
 
FOCUS: LEATHER
The fair's expansion into newly constructed exhibition halls at Chennai Trade Centre failed to address fundamental organisational issues, with similar product categories scattered across disparate locations forcing extended navigation.

IILF 2026 Exposes Gap Between Boardroom Sustainability and Tannery Floor Reality

Chennai's IILF 2026 exposed contradictions shaping India's leather industry: innovative chemical systems alongside organisational failures, Trump tariffs suppressing demand yet prices holding firm, and sustainability frameworks that never reach tannery workers. The 'Leather Carnival' demonstrated both the sector's professionalisation and its struggle to reconcile traditional identity with market realities.

Vasan Suri
Lineapelle 2025 demonstrated that the industry is ready to communicate in a different way. The collaboration between UNIC, Lineapelle, La Conceria, Is It Leather?, and voices like Volkan’s marks the beginning of a more open, consumer-connected era. But collaboration must extend to influencers, educators, and storytellers, people who can speak the language of the next generation of consumers.

The Power of Storytelling, Community and Leather’s Next Chapter

  • Blake Garavaglia
 Commentary

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