Fashion for Good

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.

A new report offers fashion industry leaders a strategic roadmap to help accelerate the adoption of next-generation materials. Highlighting key levers across the supply chain, the guide provides both individual and collective actions to drive meaningful change at scale.

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.

LiteHide is an innovative process that effectively eliminates the scourge of tanneries: the use of salt, which is a huge global land and waterway pollutant. Alexandra Pelka, Head of Europe and Business Development of Leatherteq Limited—the innovator of the technology—talks at length about leather, processes and technology.

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.

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).

An uncertain economic climate dampening the investment and retail landscape notwithstanding, there are strong drivers in place making a transition to NextGen innovations all but certain, says a new report.

There is feasibility and value in engaging in circular, textile-to-textile recycling systems for cotton, as also benefits for all involved stakeholders, affirms Accelerating Circularity's much-anticipated Global Cotton Report.