Circularity

The European Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on new measures to prevent and reduce waste from textiles across the EU. This provisional agreement will now have to be endorsed before undergoing legal linguistic revision and once formally adopted, member states will have up to 20 months to update their national laws to follow the new rules.

The Global Fashion Agenda has come out with its new GFA Monitor that outlines tools and proven practices the fashion industry can draw on as it transitions its practices to becoming net positive. It highlights the current state of progress in key areas for action across the five sustainability priorities of the Fashion CEO Agenda.

In a significant step ahead towards 100% textile circularity, French green innovation start-up, Carbios, and its five fibre-to-fibre consortium partners have come up with the world’s first enzymatically recycled polyester garment made from textile waste to spin out 100% biorecycled fibres.

A report that analyses the socioeconomic impact of the second-hand clothing industry in the EU, the UK (EU27+), as also the three African countries of Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique, says that the sector generated a cumulative €3 billion of revenues in Europe alone in 2023.

The Woolmark+ roadmap by Woolmark marks the launch of a major 13-point future-facing programme that aims to accelerate low-impact production, promote circularity and enhance animal wellbeing and woolgrower livelihoods.

The latest 2024 Circular Fashion Index (CFX) that measures fashion brands’ efforts to extend the lifecycle of their products and materials based on seven dimensions, has just 25 out of 235 players scoring 5 out of 10 or more. 

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), flagship initiatives of the Green Deal and Europe’s circular economy objectives, which sets requirements for sustainable products, was adopted by the European Council Monday.

There is significant room for improvement in separate collection systems for waste textiles in EU-27 with about 11.6kg per person of textile waste ending up in mixed household waste.

There’s ample room for improvement in augmenting the recovery of non-rewearable textiles in the US what with 56% of the textiles generated as waste suitable for fibre-to-fibre recycling, claims a new report.

Eight leading brands have joined a new collaborative initiative aimed to identify solutions and overcome challenges to begin decoupling revenue from production of new garments, advancing the long-term journey to make a circular economy for fashion a reality.