Updates

A total of $585 million have been committed by four US companies to the textiles and fashion industry in Northern Central America as part of the ‘Call to Action’ initiative of the US administration and the Partnership for Central America to combat root causes of migration.

Saamuhika Shakti is a collective impact initiative wherein nine organisations have joined forces to enable informal wastepickers have greater agency to lead secure and dignified lives. The initiative has also caught the attention of the fashion industry looking for recycled plastic.

Promotion of green science and technology will be crucial to solve sustainability issues from the root to the end of textiles' lifecycle, a research study has underlined.

Reliance Retail has become the first Indian retailer to adopt the country's new digital currency called Digital Rupee – Retail [e₹-R].

A blend of sport silhouettes with fresh detailing, German sportswear giant Adidas has launched its first new label in almost five decades: Adidas Sportswear.

In order to make meaningful progress toward sustainability, changes in wet processes including dyeing are critical to reduce microfibre shed in textile manufacturing, a report has underscored.

There is a critical imperative to improve the metrics used to quantify environmental impact indicators, especially related to the variety of factors that influence environmental sustainability of forest products, a study that looked at potential non-climate environmental impacts of wood-based textile fibres has contended.

A €3.4 million seed round will now support French deep-tech startup Ever Dye to scale up and commercialise its next-generation sustainable dyeing process and help the textile industry to lower emissions.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has said that the market for textile waste in the region does not meet the criteria to be a well-functioning market, with a large chunk of it traded as secondary raw material for downcycling activities, and a minuscule volume recycled into new textiles for new products.

In an attempt to inform decisions to unlock necessary investments and actions to scale collection, sorting and recycling innovations in North America, Fashion for Good has launched its Sorting for Circularity USA Project.