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

Katrin Ley

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

19 June 2025

3 minutes

For brands, integrating next-generation materials presents significant operational hurdles, from limited production capacity to premium pricing and complex sourcing logistics.

Fashion for Good and Altmat to Accelerate Adoption of Next-Gen Fibres through Altag Fi-bre Club

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: Fashion for Good announces today a strategic partnership with Altmat, a pioneering materials science company transforming agricultural waste into high-value materials, to advance its innovative Fibre Club initiative. Altag Fibre Club is designed to fast-track the commercial adoption of next-generation fibres from agri...

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

3 June 2025

3 minutes

The initiative delivers an open-source, modular blueprint for sustainable tier-2 textile manufacturing that can be adopted industry-wide, while simultaneously building a first-of-its-kind physical facility that demonstrates these principles in action.

Fashion For Good and Arvind Limited Launch Future Forward Factories India: Embedding Innovation in Manufacturing

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: Fashion for Good and Arvind Limited today announced the launch of Future Forward Factories India, an ambitious initiative with two interconnected components: developing a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable textile manufacturing and constructing a groundbreaking physical facility that brings these innovations to life...

PRESS RELEASE / Launch

10 April 2025

3 minutes

Formal introductions between AGI Denim and Living Ink stemmed from the Strategic Supplier Initiative (SSI) led by Amsterdam-based innovation platform Fashion For Good (FFG).

AGI Denim Partners with Living Ink to Launch Algae-Derived Black Denim

Karachi, Pakistan: AGI Denim, a leading premium denim manufacturer, proudly announces a groundbreaking collaboration with Colorado-based provider of carbon-negative pigments and bio-based inks, Living Ink Technologies. Together, they are setting a new benchmark in sustainable fashion by introducing Algae Black—a revolutionary black pigment derived...

Microfibre Pollution / Key Drivers

5 March 2025

3 minutes

Fibre fragmentation is a significant topic of concern across the industry, with studies highlighting the potential threat to ecosystems and human health.

Project Launched to Mitigate Fibre Fragment Pollution by Addressing Root Causes and Data Gaps

Fashion For Good and The Microfibre Consortium have launched a ‘Fibre Fragmentation Project’ which aims to offer a snapshot of the issue of fibre fragmentation through the lens of the textile and fashion industry, unpacking various aspects of this complex issue.

Staff Writer

Global Tool / World of Waste

8 November 2024

3 minutes

This initiative marks a significant step towards building a more transparent, collaborative, and circular fashion industry. By uniting key players from across the ecosystem, the project is not only addressing the pressing issue of textile waste but also unlocking its potential as a resource.

New Digital Tool Launched to Map Global Waste Hotspots for Recyclers and Innovators

Fashion for Good has launched a collaborative free centralised global tool that maps textile waste hotspots providing aggregated regional data on waste volume, composition, and type, enabling recyclers and innovators to efficiently identify and utilise the waste resources worldwide.

Staff Writer

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

Going Circular / India Project

1 December 2023

3 minutes

It was in 2021 that Fashion for Good launched the Sorting for Circularity India Project to organise the Indian textile waste market in a three-phase approach to streamline, strengthen and foster the Indian textile waste market to drive the transition to a more circular economy that recaptures value to its maximum potential.

Textile Recovery Alliance Launched to Promote India as NextGen Solutions Hub

Fashion for Good has launched ‘Re-Start’, a textile recovery alliance in India, and released a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in the country.

Staff Writer

Nex-Gen Materials / Sclaing Up

19 October 2023

3 minutes

While existing solutions can significantly help reduce the impact of the industry, the scaling of innovations—in particular in next-generation materials, recycling and processing—is critical to enable a transition towards a net zero industry.

Project Finance Can Unlock $100 billion to Scale up NextGen Material and Processing Innovations: Fashion for Good Report

Innovation platform Fashion for Good has published a report to help unlock the capital needed to scale up sustainable innovation in the textiles industry. The report reviews the different types of capital available to close the funding gap within the commercialisation stage.

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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