Fashion for Good

A consortium of 12 major players from across the entire recycling value chain has launched a EU-funded project to create a circular system for post-consumer textile waste. The T-REX Project (Textile Recycling Excellence) will work to create a harmonised EU blueprint for closed-loop sorting, and recycling of household textile waste.

The recent study 'Wealth in Waste: India’s Potential to Bring Textile Waste Back Into The Supply Chain' has a problem—that of sample size as well as sample selection. There is an imperative need to revisit the numbers, and bring out an updated/revised edition. A texfash.com analysis.

A report from the Sorting for Circularity Europe project says that as much as 74%—a total of 494,000 tonnes—of low-value, post-consumer textiles is readily available for fibre-to-fibre recycling in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. texfash.com reports.

A Textile Tracer Assessment that provides the fashion ecosystem stakeholders with an overview to evaluate and determine which tracer technologies would best suit their sustainability and operational needs was on Tuesday launched by Fashion for Good and Textile Exchange.

The Apparel Impact Institute (AII) has announced the lead funders in its new $250 million Fashion Climate Fund. A first-of-its-kind collaborative funding model for fashion could unlock an estimated $2 billion in blended capital across various asset classes, to help meet the industry's goal to halve carbon emissions by 2030.

An open-source playbook that offers a one-stop guide for fashion brands wanting to accelerate sustainable transformation with digital traceability was launched during a side event of the ongoing Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition. A texfash.com report.