In a significant development, Australian biotechnology company Nanollose has filed a patent for its technology that produces microbial cellulose from organic food and beverage waste.

Waste entrepreneurs, waste workers in India’s Silicon Valley have been brought under the aegis of the H&M Foundation to enable textile waste collection, sorting, and selling to generate revenue for waste pickers, as also create a circular B2B textile service model, starting with the hotel industry.

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth under the aegis of the Fair Trade Advocacy Office have come out with a report that reviews unfair trading practices (UTPs) in textile supply chains, along with a case study analysis of emerging best practices.

The Finnish University of Jyväskylä is piloting a method, the first of its kind, for corporations to calculate their biodiversity footprint, based on scientific databases and a company’s consumption accounts.

A US-headquartered startup that’s harnessing nature’s blueprints for function and colour to create regenerative fibres that plug and play in today’s fashion industry, has announced a $3.7M seed funding to develop the company’s first product — biodegradable protein fibres.

Consumption of slow fashion is positively linked to wellbeing, while the opposite was found for fast fashion buyers. Also, fashion items that consumers typically spend a lot of money on do not necessarily make them happier, nor do they contribute to their sense of achievement, meaning and engagement.

Better Cotton has announced a revised version of the Better Cotton Chain of Custody Guidelines, rechristening it as the Better Cotton Chain of Custody Standard. The new Chain of Custody Standard v1.0 will be introduced from October 2023.

Investors in Europe are increasingly opting for starups that have clear-cut sustainability commitments, with more than half of them having declined a startup investment opportunity in the last 12 months due to concerns about that company’s sustainability credentials. 

A field research study has found that microfibres are ravaging the coastlines in the East African countries of Kenya and Tanzania. It also found that most of the microfibres came from natural fibres.

Denim manufacturing is set to see a transformational shift with French luxury group Kering signing an agreement with Israeli tech innovator Sonovia and Italian denim developer PureDenim.