The latest news and innovations around sustainability in fashion

Discover all the latest news and innovations around sustainability in the fashion industry. You will find information about sustainable fashion, innovative materials, CSR, supply chain challenges, sustainability certificates, case studies and the most sustainable clothing brands.

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Sustainable water management: Jeanologia, Aitex and Pizzaro SA unveil closed-loop system

Managing and reusing the textile industry's wastewater? Life Anhidra - a project by Jeanologia, Aitex (Textile Industry Research Association) and Portuguese textile company Pizarro SA - now makes it possible to have a closed-loop system for wastewater without discharges. The aim of the innovation is to reduce the environmental impact of the...

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New rules ahead: European fashion gears up for regulatory shifts

Facing a wave of new rules by the European Union, the bloc’s fashion industry is gearing up to address its concerns. The next months will be crucial as legislators are starting to flesh out a set of green rules. In July, Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected as the President of the EU Commission. In her second term, the EU plans to implement a set...

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LHCA supports the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus

The Leather and Hide Council of America (LHCA) has pledged its support for the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus, which hope to introduce “climate-smart politics to reduce, repair, rewear and recycle textiles”. Founded by district of Maine congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Washington district’s Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and California's Sydney...

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Cirql launches compostable, biodegradable innovation for footwear brands

Vietnam-based innovation company Cirql, a subsidiary of OrthoLite, focused on developing scalable, less impactful, finished midsole components and material solutions for footwear brands, has unveiled a new industrially compostable, biodegradable foam innovation. ‘Cirql Zero’ debuted at ISPO Munich and aims to offer footwear brands a...

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“Status of German Fashion 2024”: Between tradition and digitalisation

The Fashion Council Germany (FCG) and eBay Germany recently published the study “Status of German Fashion 2024”, which, in conjunction with the research institute Oxford Economics, examined the economic significance of the German fashion industry (clothing, footwear, accessories, bags and jewellery). The study also looked at the key challenges...

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How Lectra’s AI-Powered Innovations Unlock Sustainability in Fashion?

In today’s fast-paced fashion landscape, brands face the dual challenge of keeping up with consumer demand for personalization and speed while reducing their environmental impact. At the forefront of tackling these challenges is Lectra, a pioneering player in Industry 4.0 solutions, whose innovations leverage AI, IoT, and Big Data to streamline...

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Movopack secures funding to launch circular e-commerce packaging in the UK

Movopack, the Italian-based company providing e-commerce platforms with circular and sustainable packaging, has raised a 2-million-pound seed funding round to support its official launch in the UK. The funding round was led by early-stage investor 360 Capital, with participation from Greiner Innoventures and Techstars, and will be used to “...

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Circularity Gap Report: Six circular economy strategies examined

In collaboration with the H&M Foundation, Amsterdam-based organisation Circle Economy has published the latest edition of its Circularity Gap Report. For the first time, the organisations have conducted an in-depth examination of the textile industry, revealing that it is only 0.3 percent circular, compared to an overall global average of 7.2...

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Reju CEO Patrik Frisk: 'There is very little that you can’t reuse'

“I’ve spent decades working for brands (Under Armour, The North Face, Timberland, Jansport, Smartwool, Reef, Peak Performance, Gore-Tex, Vans) that make clothes that people love. Yet, too many of these garments have ended up in landfills or incinerated. And increasing global consumption and fast fashion are only accelerating this problem,” says...

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Reju and NFT: The Circular Partnership the Industry Needed

Reju, a leading textile regeneration company, has partnered with Nouvelles Fibres Textiles (NFT), a French pioneer in end-of-life textile recovery. This collaboration aims to establish a complete circular ecosystem for textile waste in France, reflecting a shared vision to revolutionize the textile sector’s approach to waste and sustainability....

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Primark cuts carbon emissions across its value chain

Value fashion and homeware retailer Primark reports that it has cut carbon emissions across its value chain, three years after it published its 2030 sustainability commitments, after switching to renewable and low-carbon energy. Primark said in its annual ‘Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report’ that its decarbonisation programme is beginning...

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Inditex's challenge: Can it continue selling more while polluting less?

Recent reports by Reuters have accused Spanish fashion giant Inditex of increasing air freight shipments from its supplier factories in India to its logistics centres in Spain by as much as 70 percent. This increase in air freight, and its associated environmental impact, calls into question the company's ability to continue growing and...