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Marisa Ader

Initiative / American Circular Textiles

June 13, 2022

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The ACT aims to align fashion’s circularity community on the development of supportive policy to address the challenges to scaling domestic textile recovery and end-of-life solutions, our nation’s fastest-growing waste stream. The initial focus is on textile reuse.

New Alliance to Address Circularity in Fashion

The recently announced American Circular Textiles (ACT) policy group, focused on advancing circular textile policy in the US has its roots in a gathering of stakeholders to endorse New York’s Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. A texfash.com report. 

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