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.

The detrimental environmental impact of bovine leather has been reduced by a significant 60% on the just updated Higg Materials Sustainability Index (Higg MSI), Leather Working Group and Leather Naturally have announced.

Polyester, the most widely used fibre worldwide, and a key pollutant to boot, poses many systemic and tech challenges when it comes to sorting, pre-processing and recycling, says a new study by nonprofit Accelerating Circularity.

The latest Materials Benchmark Insights and Trends report by Textile Exchange contends that while the industry has made progress, reporting brands are not moving fast enough to meet targets for real climate action. Besides, some companies have also dropped out as signatories of the challenges now that the target year is around the corner.

A freely accessible, user-friendly, self-assessment tool—True Cost Calculator (TCC)—has been launched for the fashion ecosystem, taking into account the full lifecycle of a garment, measuring the impact step by step—from production to transport, use, and waste processing.

There’s a new cotton LCA methodology for the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (Higg MSI) promising “unprecedented accuracy and consistency” in assessing the environmental impacts of cotton fibre.

In a major update, the Global Change Award and its Changemaker Programme will now back a wider range of changemakers with early-stage innovations and, in a departure from an open application system, it will operate a nomination-based process. A total of 10 winners stand to receive €200,000 each.

Europe’s textile sorting and recycling industry is under immense pressure with prices for second-hand textiles plummeting, while the costs of collection, sorting, and recycling have skyrocketed, EuRIC has warned.

The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute has launched a new product certification called the C2C Certified Circularity offering measurable goals to guide all aspects of circular product development—from design and sourcing, to circular systems, packaging, and material health.

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.