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Lululemon establishes partnership with textile recycling startup, Samsara Eco

Sportswear company Lululemon has announced a new multi-year collaboration with textile-to-textile recycling firm, Samsara Eco, as it looks to scale its circularity practices. The brand said that through the partnership it is aiming to make infinitely recycled nylon and polyester from its own products using the startup’s circular process. Samsara...

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Lush invests in circular recycling facility in Poole

UK-based beauty brand Lush has invested 2.3 million pounds in a new Green Hub at Fleets Corner Business Park in Poole to grow its capabilities in the circular economy. The Green Hub recycling facility spans 40,128 square feet within Lush’s UK manufacturing and distribution hub at Fleets Corner, which totals 275,000 square feet following the...

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Tips for building a more sustainable wardrobe

In this background story, FashionUnited gives you tips on how to create a more sustainable wardrobe - or if you’re a retailer, how to advise consumers about more sustainable fashion. Contents • How to build a more sustainable wardrobe • Still want something new? Consider renting clothes, or buying second-hand • Would you rather buy brand new...

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Fashion and sustainability in April 2023

April has been the most active and promising month so far this year in terms of sustainability in the fashion industry. It was marked by Earth Day on 20th April, Fashion Revolution Week, which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on 24th April 2013, and the World Retail Congress in Barcelona from...

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Repreve announces Champions of Sustainability award winners

For the sixth time since 2016, the Repreve Champions of Sustainability Awards are being given to brands, retailers and textile mills that are using sustainable fibres in their products. The global awards honour the transformation of single-use plastic bottles into new consumer products, thus saving them from the waste stream. Repreve is made...

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Adidas reveals promising achievements on recycled polyester scheme

With the 2023 Earth Day in mind, Adidas announced its accomplishment of currently using 96 percent recycled polyester for its products. The ambition to replace all virgin polyester with recycled polyester ideally by 2024 was set in 2017 and seems now to be possible to achieve earlier than expected. Adidas has been aiming to lessen its reliance...

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Zara and Circ team up on recycled polycotton collection

Inditex’s Zara has unveiled a new partnership with textile waste recycling company Circ on a collection utilising recycled polycotton blended textiles. Available in 11 markets, the womenswear capsule features a series of lyocell garments and polyester garments made with 50 percent and 43 percent recycled polycotton textile waste, respectively,...

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Ganni introduces in-house recycling scheme to repurpose fabric waste

Danish fashion brand Ganni is introducing a new in-house recycling initiative to recycle its cut-off production scraps into new clothing. The affordable luxury brand explained that T-shirts are one of its key product categories, however, conventional production methods create up to 20 percent cut-off waste, meaning that Ganni produces 12 tonnes...

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H&M Group establishes joint venture to drive used textile sorting

H&M Group has announced a new joint venture with Remondis through the launch of a circular textile initiative, Looper Textile Co. The duo will own equal parts of the organisation, with H&M hoping to participate “more directly” in the development of circular fashion infrastructure, a press release stated. Meanwhile, the launch further builds on...

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Recycled plastic collected by Indian waste pickers turned into 152 million buttons

Around 62 million tonnes of waste are generated annually in India, of which only 19 percent is treated. The rest ends up in landfills but that is not where it remains - enter about 1.5 to 4 million informal waste pickers who are the largest driving force behind recycling in India. Often barefoot, uneducated and shunned by society, they climb...

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Fashion for Good launches Sorting for Circularity USA project

The global sustainability initiative Fashion for Good has launched its new Sorting for Circularity USA project today, which will focus on the North-American textile-to-textile recycling market. External brand partners are Adidas, Inditex, Levi Strauss & Co. and Target, and external partners are Eastman, H&M and Nordstrom. The 18-month project...

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Ralph Lauren introduces cashmere recycling programme

Ralph Lauren has unveiled its first Cradle to Cradle Certified Gold cashmere sweater alongside the news it is launching a cashmere recycling programme in North America, the UK, and Europe. The cashmere sweater has been designed “to be worn, loved and live on responsibly for generations to come,” explains Ralph Lauren in the press release, and...