It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Target Corporation

Footwear Innovation / New Initiative

6 August 2024

2 minutes

Around 23.9 billion shoes produced globally each year, are often made using over 40 different components from a range of materials including TPU, EVA, PU and rubber. The industry faces significant challenges due to this high complexity of shoe constructio

Fashion for Good, 7 Partners Launch Project to Accelerate NextGen Footwear Innovations and Circularity

Fashion for Good has launched a collaborative ambitious initiative aimed at accelerating the next generation of footwear innovations needed to drive circularity spanning four workstreams across the supply chain from materials to end of use.

Staff Writer

Fashion Recycled / Tracing Waste

24 July 2024

3 minutes

The initiative by Fashion for Good and Textile Exchange will establish a standardised system for classifying and collecting data on textile waste, materialised via a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of the Reclaimed Material Declaration Form (RMDF).

Fashion for Good, Textile Exchange Launch Initiative to Drive Transparency in Recycling with Trace Textile Waste Project

Fashion for Good and Textile Exchange have launched a two-year, multi-stakeholder initiative to harmonise data and system capabilities in the reverse supply chain. A key objective is to deliver recommendations for the development of new and existing standards, including the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and Recycled Claim Standard (RCS).

Staff Writer

Cotton Production / Space Exploration

18 December 2023

3 minutes

Cotton cell samples, held by NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Kayla Barron, are pictured growing on a petri dish inside the Advanced Plant Habitat. The samples were grown and harvested for the Plant Habitat-05 space agriculture study that explores genetic expression in cotton cultures to learn more about the process of plant regeneration possibly improving crop production on Earth.

A TIC-TOC Moment: Cotton Grows Better in Space than on Earth

By decoding why cotton grows better in space than on Earth, a research team could well be writing a new chapter in farming, one that enhances our crops on the ground and in space.

Special Correspondent

Report

Climate Action / Action Plan

3 October 2023

3 minutes

The initiative seeks to empower manufacturers to take substantive actions in reducing emissions to combat climate change, improving operational efficiency and growth, and further advancing sustainability throughout the industry.

SAC Launches Climate Initiative Aimed at Reducing Emissions, Excludes Scope 3 Measurements

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has launched a Manufacturer Climate Action Program (MCAP) to help the textile industry reduce GHG emissions by 2030.

Staff Writer

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

25 July 2023

2 minutes

Through this collaborative pilot, the partners will divert pre- and post-consumer footwear to FastFeetGrinded, who will transform them into various new material granulates.

Fashion For Good Partners Adidas, Inditex, Target and Zalando Join Forces with FastFeetGrinded for Circular Footwear

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: Fashion for Good launches new pilot with brand partners Adidas, Inditex, Target and Zalando, and footwear recycling innovator FastFeetGrinded to test and validate the innovative footwear recycling process to support the uptake of recycled content in footwear, driving the change towards a more circular footwear industry.

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Climate Action / Lead Funder

17 November 2022

2 minutes

A group of men in a rural valley, using working horses to move felled timber, in traditional forest management. Apparel Impact Institute is building a $250M Fashion Climate Fund (combined industry and philanthropic sources) to unlock a total of $2B in blended capital towards verified impact solutions, thereby removing up to 150 million tonnes of CO2 from the apparel supply chain.

Target Corp to be New Lead Funder of $250 million Fashion Climate Fund

Target Corporation would be a new lead funder of the $250 million Fashion Climate Fund of the Apparel Impact Institute, which is working towards meeting the fashion industry's step towards reducing carbon emissions.