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

Textile Exchange

Material Production / Market Report 2022

5 October 2022

4 minutes

The growth in fibre production has significant impacts on people and the planet. Awareness of the urgent need for more responsible use of resources and decoupling growth from resource consumption is growing; however, change is not yet happening at the scale and speed required.

Sustainability Drives Going Nowhere; Global Fibre Production at Record High; Industry on Way to Miss Paris Target

With less than 1% of the global fibre market from pre- and post-consumer recycled textiles in 2021, the untethered production will ensure that the industry does not stay within the 1.5° pathway, the Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report warns.

Special Correspondent

Going Organic / Certifications

16 September 2022

2 minutes

The Textile Exchange announcement remarked: "While we can require our own certification bodies to supply this data, we cannot extend this requirement to certification bodies operating in other schemes."

GOTS Tag Not Enough: Textile Exchange to Seek All Original Certification Data

Charges of greenwashing against some MNCs has pushed Textile Exchange to effect a policy change to its Organic Content Standard (OCS), making site inputs from the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) mandatory in a bid to provide traceability of all transaction certificate data back to the original farm source and farm input.

Special Correspondent

Traceability / User Guide

26 July 2022

3 minutes

Physical tracer technologies work best when implemented in tandem with digital traceability, and are key to supplement site-level verification, and transactional-level verification providing robust, holistic and future-proofed traceability governance.

Fashion for Good, Textile Exchange Publish Tracer Guide for Industry Players to Boost Traceability

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.

Staff Writer

Materials / Survey Report

29 June 2022

2 minutes

Textile Exchange’s Material Change Index (MCI) is the largest peer-to-peer comparison initiative in the textile industry. It tracks the apparel, footwear and home textile sector’s progress toward more sustainable materials sourcing, as well as alignment with global efforts like the Sustainable Development Goals and the transition to a circular economy.

Recycling Dominated by Plastic Waste, Most Companies Relied on Now-Tainted Higg MSI

Textile Exchange's Material Change Index (MCI) has reached a 50% preferred materials use even though growth in the uptake of recycled inputs is dominated by plastic packaging waste. However, post-consumer textile waste is at a paltry 1.49% of recycled inputs, and 0.18% of textile use overall. texfash.com reports.

Special Correspondent

Event Report / GFS 2022

10 June 2022

3 minutes

The Global Circular Fashion Forum (GCFF) which was launched at the GFA Summit will convene stakeholders across various circularity programmes and regions, sharing knowledge and building upon best practices in an effort to achieve a long-term, scalable, and just transition to a circular fashion industry.

Brands and Organisations Announce New Actions at Global Fashion Summit

The two-day Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition centred around the theme 'Alliances for a New Era' came to a close 8 June with leaders coming together to foster pre-competitive collaboration within the fashion industry and examine atypical cross-industry alliances, in a bid to accelerate the transition to a net positive industry. texfash.com reports.

Staff Writer

Climate Crisis / Funding

8 June 2022

2 minutes

It's Raining Funds: AII Announces Lead Funders for $250 Million Fashion Climate Fund

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.

Staff Writer

Fashion Systems / Report

6 June 2022

4 minutes

If the fashion industry does not accelerate its response to climate change by 2030 it will be responsible for producing approximately twice the volume of emissions permitted to align with the Paris Agreement global warming pathways towards net zero emissions by 2050.

Bold Alliances Needed to Redesign Fashion System, Establish Pervasive Change: GFA Report

In a bid to accelerate the fashion industry’s response to climate change, the just-released GFA Monitor is a guide for fashion leaders to work towards a net positive fashion industry.

Staff Writer

Best Practices / Footwear

6 June 2022

6 minutes

The materials chosen for the upper, linings, foams, outsole, reinforcements, and laces all must follow requirements that help save the planet's resources, either with partially recycled content or responsibly sourced from nature. Today if you ask your core suppliers, you will find almost all types of materials have their sustainable version.

Points to Plan Before You Launch Your Own Footwear Brand

Planning to launch a footwear brand? How can you ensure a sustainable range of footwear? How could you go about sourcing the right environment-friendly raw materials? What approaches can you use to build sustainable products if you plan to start a footwear brand today? Answers to all these questions and more…

Marcio Porcher

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