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Sorting for Circularity India Toolkit Launched: Pioneering Partnership Sets India on Path to Next-Gen Textiles Leadeship
Leveraging insights from Wealth in Waste, Fashion for Good releases a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in India.
Meet Tricia Carey
The Fashion for Good team interviewed Tricia Carey, Chief Commercial Officer at Renewcell, 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.
Open Letter to the Fashion Industry
At Fashion for Good, we're on a mission to transform the fashion industry into a circular and sustainable industry. We do this by accelerating and scaling innovation. Scaling innovation, however, is a long and complex journey which requires all stakeholders — innovators, brands, supply chain partners, investors, and consumers — to play their roles and to walk the talk.
Meet the Innovator: Renewcell
Renewcell breaks down used cotton and other cellulose-rich textiles and transforms them into a new, raw material: Circulose® pulp.
Meet the Chief Business Officer: Luke Henning
The Fashion for Good team interviewed Luke Henning, Chief Business Officer of Circ, 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.
Fashion for Good and Spring Lane Capital Report Defines How Project Finance Can Bridge the Innovation Commercialisation Gap
Fashion for Good has teamed up with Spring Lane Capital to help unlock the capital needed to scale sustainable innovation in the textile industry. This report aims to enhance innovators’ understanding of relevant industry stakeholders and ultimately assists in further enabling the scaling of much needed innovation.
Meet the Innovator: Circ
Circ™ recycles discarded clothing to return them to the raw materials from which they were made.
Supply chain innovation is sorely needed. Who’s going to fund it?
Fashion brands and suppliers are facing more pressure and increased regulations on how products are made and dealt with at end of life, all while dealing with rising costs. The funding required to innovate and upgrade remains elusive.
How Deep Tech Can Drive Sustainability and Profitability in Manufacturing
Companies are facing more pressure to become more sustainable while remaining profitable — and deep tech can help.
What is chemical recycling?
The fashion industry faces a critical waste problem, as the majority of our garments are discarded and contribute to textile waste, which is in turn responsible for resource depletion, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Both mechanical and chemical recycling offer potential solutions. Chemical recycling, in particular, offers the possibility for high-value recycling and gives us a better chance at solving fashion’s ugly waste problem.
Setting up a sustainable fashion company? It's really possible if you keep these choices in mind.
Despite a brilliant idea, innovative design or strong name, sustainably running a company as a starting entrepreneur can be difficult. [DUTCH ARTICLE]
Can the fashion industry move from recycled bottles to reused threads?
There’s probably enough clothing on the planet that there’s no need to spin another new fibre. In the United States and European Union almost 22 million tonnes of textiles are thrown out every year. The waste is found everywhere from the ocean to the Atacama Desert.
The circular fashion challenge: Can AI help to close the loop?
As the concept of circular fashion has gained traction, researchers and entrepreneurs are developing tools they hope brands will implement to finally close the loop. One of the latest is new AI sorting technology developed by California-based company Refiberd.
What If Polyester Isn’t So Bad After All?
The most-used material in clothing may also be the ultimate recyclable fibre.
Meet the Founder: Andy Ruben
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.
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.
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.
Startups Are Vying to Fix One of Fashion’s Fossil-Fueled Secrets
Transferring dye to fabric is incredibly carbon-intensive. Newer sustainable techniques, including coloring with carbon dioxide, may help.
What is circularity?
Circularity means producing less and being more mindful of the entire lifecycle of a product. By focusing on the beginning and end of a product’s journey, we can create a more thoughtful and considerate supply chain that benefits both consumers and the environment.
Meet the Innovator: Oritain
Oritain applies forensic and data science to verify the origin of products and raw materials.
What is transparency?
Transparency means being open and honest about where, when, and how a garment was made through every step of the fashion value chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to your local retail store.
Meet the Founder: Amit Gautam
The Fashion for Good team interviewed Amit Gautam, founder and CEO of TextileGenesis, 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.
Fashion for Good Partners adidas, Inditex, Target & Zalando Join Forces with FastFeetGrinded for Circular Footwear
Fashion for Good launches new pilot with brand partners adidas, Inditex, Target and Zalando, and footwear recycling innovator FastFeetGrinded to test and validate the innovative footwear recycling process to support the uptake of recycled content in footwear, driving the change towards a more circular footwear industry.
What are microfibres and microplastics in fashion?
While there is a greater awareness of plastic pollution from plastic packaging, few consumers recognise that some clothing can also be a source of microplastics, but in the form of microfibres.
Textile Processing - How disruptive innovation can pave the way to a sustainable fashion supply chain | Part II
This article is the third in a three-part series based on our Textile Processing Guide.
What is traceability?
Traceability means knowing when, where, and how each piece of a garment is made, allowing us to trace it back from source to consumer, providing visibility of the fashion supply chain and enabling improved sustainability governance by industry players.
Textile Processing - How disruptive innovation can pave the way to a sustainable fashion supply chain | Part I
This article is the second in a three-part series based on our Textile Processing Guide.
What is mycelium?
You may have heard about mycelium in recent months as a sustainable alternative to leather and "pleather", with some brands trailing the material to create bags and shoes. But what exactly is it?
Driving Circular Innovation Forward: Fashion for Good Welcomes New Partners to its Sorting for Circularity USA Project
The Sorting for Circularity USA consortium project welcomes new partners and expands its North American geographical scope.
Meet the Innovator: TextileGenesis™
TextileGenesis™ is a pioneering traceability platform custom built for the fashion & textile ecosystem.
