Manufacturing

The industry-led Circular Fashion Innovation Network (CFIN) has published an interim report which highlights key insights and next steps in the UK's journey towards a circular fashion ecosystem by 2032. It focuses on three critical areas: Circular Business Models, Sustainable Manufacturing, and Recycling Infrastructure.

Australia's 2024 Ethical Fashion Report has found that the average company score sits at only 31 out of 100, leaving significant room for improvement.

A new handbook guides companies on how to use the OECD due diligence framework for achieving living incomes and living wages in global supply chains. It builds on existing OECD standards and focuses on the agriculture, garment and footwear sectors where inadequate incomes and wages have been identified as prevalent risks.

When it comes to circularity, the fashion sector scores high on ‘ambition and strategy’ and ‘goals and targets’, and has made strong progress with its circular ambitions and collaboration initiatives. But there is further potential in establishing new and increasing existing targets, implementing initiatives on a broader scale, and enhancing circular inflows and circular business models, says a KPMG report.

California has become the first US state to pass a textile Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) bill, which aims to hold producers accountable for the reuse and recycling of apparel and footwear sold in the state.

As global fibre production clocks a rise for the third consecutive year, by 6.89% over last year, the textile industry’s commitments to its climate goals could falter big time, the latest annual edition of the Materials Market Report from Textile Exchange has revealed.

A report by Ellen MacArthur Foundation outlines a shared direction of travel and the opportunity for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) to create ambitious outcomes that accelerate the circular economy transition.

An industry-backed white paper lays out a clear call to the UK government to incentivise sustainability and secure funding for the development of high-impact circular infrastructure, jobs and skills in the country.

Global non-profit alliance Cascale has come up with the Higg FEM Verifier Field Guide which is set to serve as the textile industry’s go-to resource for a smooth verification process.

A new report—Hidden cost: Human Rights Policy and Practice in Mexico’s Apparel Supply Chains—examines how the North American country’s leading apparel companies address human rights risks in their supply chains and identifies key labour risks in the industry.