Manufacturing & Retail

The manufacturing and retail stage aims to reduce textile waste accumulation and over production, to optimise efficiency in the cut, make and trim of a garment through digital solutions and on-demand production, and to extend the life of products and packaging through circular business models. This supply chain step aims to reduce the overall waste to landfill at a factory, retail and consumer level.

Projects

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    The Home Compostable Polybag Project

    Fashion for Good initiated the Home Compostable Polybag Project to explore alternatives to conventional plastic polybags. In collaboration with innovators TIPA Corp. and Greenhope, along with partners C&A and Levi Strauss & Co., the initiative focused on researching, assessing, and validating bio-based, home-compostable options. The project’s goal was to determine the feasibility of these alternatives and achieve key objectives in reducing plastic waste in the fashion industry.
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    VAT Tax Impact on Resale in the UK

    As part of a global effort to clamp down on tax evaders, the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed new rules to request information from digital platforms like Vinted or eBay to report the income sellers are getting through their site routinely. While the ultimate objective of these rules is to combat tax evasion, there is a potential unintended consequence on the circular economy.
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    In Conversation with Trove: The Innovator Powering the Resale Ecosystem For Brands

    The Fashion for Good team interviewed Andy Ruben, Founder and Executive Chairman of Trove, to learn more about the innovator’s story, technology, challenges and successes and showcase innovations that are driving tangible change in the industry and leading the path to scale.
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    Meet the Innovator: Trove

    Trove offers a service allowing brands to take control of their resale marketplaces through a white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping.
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    What are circular business models?

    Circular business models (CBM) are a way of conducting business that focuses on sustainability through minimising waste, reusing resources, and effectively creating a closed-loop system that is beneficial to people and the environment.
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    Fashion for Good launches the home-compostable polybag project

    Fashion for Good launches the Home-Compostable Polybag Project, a pilot to test alternatives to conventional single-use polybags,

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    Fashion for Good Launches the Home-Compostable Polybag Project

    Today, Fashion for Good launches the Home-Compostable Polybag Project, a pilot to test alternatives to conventional single-use polybags.
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    With its soluble sewing thread, Resortecs facilitates the management of unsold garments

    For a long time, the fashion industry has been caught up by its excesses such as overproduction. It is with the aim of giving new life to fabrics that the start-up developed two innovations, which, when combined, allow clothes to be easily “unsewn” and thus facilitate fabric recovery. [FRENCH ARTICLE]

    RESPONSIBLE

    RESPONSIBLE is a global circularity platform powered by advanced proprietary technology. The company is on a mission to scale circularity by offering solutions across the product life cycle and a premium take on reCommerce. (Northern Ireland)

    Perfitly

    Perfitly is an AR/VR-AI based size recommendation and visualisation platform for fashion e-commerce helping brands reduce returns. Online shoppers try on clothes using their custom digital body double to find their perfect fit, thus reducing returns and subsequent waste. Founded in 2015 (US).

    traceless

    Traceless creates bio-based films and coats that are home compostable, do not compete with food production and are qualitatively a real alternative to conventional plastic – 100% biodegradable and compostable. Founded in 2020 (Germany).

    Greenhope

    Greenhope is a social technology enterprise manufacturing biodegradable technologies to address hard-to-recycle items that are too small, contaminated, not economically viable, or destined for landfills. Their Ecoplas bioplastic sources starch from local farmers and turn it into packaging for apparel, food, and non-food applications. Founded in 2017 (Indonesia).

    Swatchbook

    Swatchbook is a cloud-based 3D material library revolutionising the exploration, visualisation and sharing of materials. The application connects brands with suppliers and allows secure communication between the design teams and suppliers. It helps to understand the real properties of materials without actually touching it through their platform and photos/videos. Founded in 2017 (USA).

    Lucro

    Lucro produces high quality recycled plastic waste to make products, ultimately seeking to close the loop. Lucro caters to big industries including retail, FMCG and automotive, exporting their products to the US and Europe. Founded in 2012, (India).

    Cadel Recycling Lab

    Cadel Recycling Lab removes printed ink and labels from plastics and through mechanical recycling can produce high quality, high recycled-content pellets. These pellets are waste based with no toxic chemicals, and have lower carbon when compared to virgin plastic. Founded in 2014 (Spain).

    Resortecs

    Resortecs produces a stitching thread which dissolves when exposed to heat for easy repair and recycling of garments. This allows for reduced water usage when compared to traditional disassembly and recycling processes used in closed-loop denim production, and the solution reduces textile waste through enabled ease of recycling. Founded in 2017 (Belgium).

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    In Conversation with Bananatex: From Bananas to Backpacks

    The Fashion for Good team interviewed Bananatex's Co-Founder & CEO Hannes Schoenegger, to learn more about the innovator’s story, technology, challenges, and successes and showcase innovations that are driving tangible change in the industry and leading the path to scale.
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    Reflections from the D(R)YE Factory of the Future Project

    Fashion for Good launched D(R)YE Factory of the Future in January 2022 with the aim to validate the most promising technology combinations in pretreatment and colouration processing steps to support the widespread adoption of mostly waterless innovations within the textile industry. The validation conducted through this project has established a critical pipeline of innovations for further validation and implementation with select strategic suppliers.
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    Decoding the ESPR Digital Product Passport (DPP): what is it, when it’s here and which Innovators are leading the way

    A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a digital identifier that provides information about a product, including details on its materials, origins, repairability, recycling potential, and environmental impact. The DPP is designed to be accessible both online and offline, often via physical data carriers such as QR codes.
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    Pioneering the Future of Footwear: A New Initiative by Fashion for Good

    AMSTERDAM - Fashion for Good and its footwear focused partners adidas, Inditex, ON Running, PVH Corp., Reformation, Target, and Zalando announce an ambitious new initiative aimed at accelerating and validating the next generation of footwear innovations. This builds on the organisation’s existing work leveraging their expertise in scouting, validation, and pioneering innovation and collaboration. This initiative will address the key intervention points needed to drive footwear circularity spanning four work streams across the supply chain from materials to end of use. Industry wide collaboration will be vital to overcome the various roadblocks we face in this space. Therefore, Fashion for Good is launching a call for action, asking all relevant innovators to apply and collaborators to join in the movement.