Three players from the textile industry have forged a partnership to give France its first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste to produce recycled fibres for the spinning, nonwovens, and composites industries.

Textile Exchange’s electronic traceability system for certified materials has now been made commercially available for the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and Recycled Content Standard (RCS).

Fashion for Good has launched ‘Re-Start’, a textile recovery alliance in India, and released a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in the country.

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is enlarging its ongoing Controlled Supply Chain Scheme Pilot Project that was strategically developed to overcome the obstacles that often deter small-scale operators from pursuing its certification.

Sportswear major Puma's two year-long Re:Suede project successfully concluded by composting an experimental version of its classic Suede sneaker under certain tailor-made industrial conditions.

The H&M Group has established collaborative financing solutions that enable the necessary decarbonisation of its supply chains by launching a green loan programme in association with Southeast Asia’s largest bank, DBS.
 

The escalating reliance on biomass in the fashion sector not only threatens climate, ecosystems and human health, but also poses significant risks to the broader push toward genuine renewable energy, especially in Asia, says a report by environmental advocacy group Stand.earth.

In a bid to map out the complex and rapidly evolving policy landscape and support members in their compliance work with their own legal and compliance teams, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has released a Higg Index Tools Analysis and Compliance Initiatives Summary Report, and put it in the public domain.

The EU-driven T-REX Project has identified opportunities and gaps associated with digitisation and circularity with focus on three key segments, including waste mapping, supply chain traceability, and digital product passports.

In the foreseeable future, almost all cotton producing regions around the world will be negatively impacted by climate change, and if brands/retailers don't do their bit about their relationships with cotton farmers and value chains, the damage to livelihoods and production could be irreversible.