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

Slow Fashion Caucus

Slow Fashion Caucus / US Report

17 December 2024

5 minutes

Fast fashion has created an unsustainable cycle of overproduction and overwhelming waste that is hurting our environment and communities. This report underscores the need for federal leadership to curb the staggering environmental and economic costs of textile waste.

Landmark US Report Finds Most Federal Entities' Efforts Are Nascent, Calls for Inter-Agency Mechanism to Tackle Textile Waste

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a report describing how and why the rate of textile waste in the country has changed in the last two decades, and suggested federal actions to reduce textile waste and advance textile recycling.

Staff Writer

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

5 September 2024

3 minutes

The Slow Fashion Caucus has already garnered widespread support, including from the Garment Worker Center, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, Remake, Patagonia, thredUP, Fibershed, American Circular Textiles, fashion designer and slow fashion influencer Kelly Dempsey, and more.

During New York Fashion Week, Slow Fashion Caucus Leads Push to Revitalize US Sustainable Fibers Industry

WASHINGTON, U.S.: As New York Fashion Week gets underway, Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus founder and chair Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is calling attention to the critical need to promote sustainable textile production in the United States. In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, Pingree and her colleagues...

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

17 August 2024

5 minutes

“Americans are the largest consumers of fashion and textiles in the world, and these various sectors employ millions of people domestically. There are growing business and job opportunities in all skill levels in areas of fashion like sustainable textiles and textile manufacturing, reuse and recycling technology, logistics, and science,” the lawmakers wrote.

Slow Fashion Caucus to President Biden: US Must Not Overlook the Fashion Industry’s Potential to Address the Climate Crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.: Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus Founder and Chair Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is leading members of the Caucus in urging President Joe Biden to include representatives from the textile and fashion industries in his new White House Task Force on Climate and Trade. In a letter to the president, Pingree and her fellow Slow...

Consumer Trends / Slow Fashion Caucus

22 July 2024

6 minutes

The rise of so-called “fast fashion” has become an urgent environmental problem. Today, nearly two-thirds of all the fibres we wear and use are made from fossil fuel products.

There Should Be a Coordinated Effort in Congress to Rein in the Fast Fashion Industry

More than 11 million tonnes of textile waste end up in US landfills yearly. The problem is getting worse, but the apparel industry has the power to be part of the solution. It is with this thought and the urgent need to rein in the fast fashion pollution that Congresswoman Chellie Pingree launched the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus to create climate-smart policies to reduce, repair, rewear, and recycle textiles. She outlines her plans in this exclusive to texfash.

Richa Bansal

Interview

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New Movement / Slow Fashion

11 July 2024

4 minutes

There is a dire need for public policy to help the fashion industry accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future. The launch of the Slow Fashion Caucus gives us a powerful new platform to forge ahead.

First-Ever Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus Launched in the US

In a landmark move, members of the US Congress have launched the first ever caucus dedicated to curb waste and check the continuing onslaught of fast fashion pollution by introducing climate-smart policies that exhort repair, reduce, rewear, and recycle of textiles.