Sustainability

Walmart Foundation Grants $1.2mn To Boost Circular Textiles

Textile Insights December 8, 2023

The Walmart Foundation has granted US $1.2 million to support Goodwill Industries International and Accelerating Circularity to transform unsellable textile donations into recycling feedstock. The partnership with Goodwill is intended to develop skills, systems, and infrastructure at local

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Shahi Exports Closer To 100% Renewable Electricity Goal

Textile Insights December 8, 2023

Shahi Exports, India’s largest apparel manufacturer and exporter has been able to increase renewable energy capacity to 92.5 MW, bringing it closer to 100 percent renewable electricity goal by 2026. This was revealed in the Shahi Exports Sustainability Report for 2022-23. Another initiative is phasing out coal from garment factories and continue working on coal […]

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EU Parliament Revises Timeline On Textile Labeling Regulation

Textile Insights December 8, 2023

The European Union Parliament has revised the timeline for the textile labeling regulation, which was originally planned for fourth quarter of 2023, but has now been rescheduled for fourth quarter of 2024. The European Union Commission had earlier presented an EU strategy in March 2022 for sustainable and circular textiles as part of the circular […]

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Puma To Use Re:Fibre Technology In All Replica Jerseys

Textile Insights December 6, 2023

German sports company Puma has scaled up its textile recycling innovation, Re:Fibre and will be replacing recycled polyester with Re:Fibre in all Puma football Club and federation replica jerseys 2024 onwards. Since the launch of the pilot project in 2022, which saw Puma produce recycled training jerseys for their sponsored football clubs, Re:Fibre technology has […]

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Stella Mccartney Unveils First Ever Garment From Industrial Waste

Textile Insights December 6, 2023

USA start-up Protein Evolution (PEI) and its fashion brand partner, Stella McCartney has launched their first fashion garment, a Parka, manufactured from transforming industrial plastic waste into fibres. The fashion clothing has been created using PEI’s proprietary Biopure technology, which uses AI-designed enzymes to biologically break down synthetic textile and

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Czechoslovakia Introducing Separate Textile Waste Collection

Textile Insights December 5, 2023

The Czechoslovakia Ministry of Environment is planning to introduce mandatory separate textile waste collection starting from 2025. Speaking at a press conference, the Environment Minister Petr Hladík said that the aim is to increase the amount of textile waste that is reused or recycled. He also added that manufacturers of these textile and clothing will […]

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Fashion For Good Toolkit To Manage Indian Textile Waste

Textile Insights December 4, 2023

Leveraging insights from Wealth in Waste, Fashion for Good has released a toolkit designed to revitalise textile waste in India. A conference on ‘Sorting for Circularity India’ was held in New Delhi on December 1-2, hosted in collaboration with Laudes Foundation, IDH, Canopy, and Reverse Resources. The event marks the launch of ‘Re-START’, a textile […]

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GOTS Pilot Project CSCS to Certify Small Operator Groups

Textile Insights December 2, 2023

In an initiative to enhance accessibility to certification for small operator groups within the organic textile value chain, GOTS has introduced its ongoing Controlled Supply Chain Scheme (CSCS) Pilot Project. The project, launched in 2022, was strategically developed to overcome the obstacles that often deter small-scale operators from pursuing GOTS certification.

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First French Plant For Sorting & Recycling Of Textile Waste

Textile Insights December 2, 2023

France based textile recycling company Nouvelles Fibres, has started the country’s first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste. The plant is the result of a partnership between textile recycling company Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, waste sorting specialist Pellenc ST and Andritz, a specialist in textile recycling machinery and processes.

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Consortium Aims To Recycle 50% Italian Textile Waste By 2035

Textile Insights November 29, 2023

The European Recycling Platform (ERP) has established the ERP Italia Textile Consortium, which aims to achieve a remarkable 50 percent recycling rate for textile waste in Italy by 2035. ERP said it recognises the urgent need to address the growing issue of textile waste and with Italy projected to experience a massive 63 percent textile […]