Today Fashion for Good announces the launch of the Feedstock Assessment for Biosynthetic Innovation, an initiative in collaboration with Bestseller, On and other brands aimed at accelerating the industry’s shift towards alternatives to fossil-fuel polymers. The assessment will be conducted in partnership with industry experts, the nova-Institute.

Today Fashion for Good announces the launch of World of Waste, a free online tool mapping global textile waste hotspots providing aggregated regional data on waste volume, composition, and type, enabling recyclers and innovators to efficiently identify and utilise textile waste resources worldwide.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Almat's founder, Shikha Shah, 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.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Natural Fiber Welding's (NFW) Annie Cull, Director of Brand & Communications 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.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Spinnova's Juha Salmela, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, 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.

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.

Fashion for Good launched the Fast Feet Grinded Collaborative pilot in 2023 with FastfeetGrinded, Target, adidas, Inditex, and Zalando to test and validate the footwear recycling process and support the uptake of recycled materials in footwear.

Fashion for Good launched the Renewable Carbon Project in June 2021 with catalytic funding from the Laudes Foundation in collaboration with Bestseller, Norrona, PVH Corp. and the Fabrics Division of W. L. Gore & Associates. The aim of the project was to test and validate the technical feasibility of the different PHA polymer and composite resins to make mono and multifilament fibres.

Back in 2019, Fashion for Good dove into the world of packaging and did an extensive exercise of mapping plastic waste flows through the fashion supply chain. Through this work, we identified three key intervention levers: reduce plastic through process innovation, close loop on existing plastics and decouple from fossil fuels. Read below the insight from our five multi-stakeholder reports and projects aimed at addressing two of these three levers.

Leather production can have varying environmental impacts depending on the practices and standards employed. While some traditional leather is produced using responsible and sustainable methods, there are also growing concerns around its environmental footprint.  While there are multiple “vegan” leather alternatives available on the market, many of them contain synthetic materials, have worse performance metrics than conventional leather, or are not available at scale. These partly plastic materials cannot be recycled and fewer still are compostable. Alongside this, synthetic foams, often made from polyurethane, are made from petroleum, a non-renewable virgin resource.  There are lots of opportunities for innovation in both leather and foam alternatives: Ecovative’s petrochemical-free mycelium hides and foam alternative promises to be a more sustainable alternative, grown in a fraction of time compared to animal leather, and with minimal resources.

In this interview, we discuss the evolution of Smartex. Co-founder Gilberto Loureiro provides a deep dive into how Smartex tackles significant challenges in textile manufacturing using AI-driven technology and sustainable methods.

AMSTERDAM - Fashion for Good and Textile Exchange introduce the Tracing Textile Waste Project, a two-year, multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at harmonising data and system capabilities in the reverse supply chain. This project seeks to create alignment through an open-source data template and a glossary of terms. It will establish and validate a standardised framework for collecting and exchanging textile waste data between the point of origin and recyclers. A key objective is to deliver recommendations to Textile Exchange for the development of new and existing standards, including the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and Recycled Claim Standard (RCS).

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Living Ink's Director of Partnerships & Strategic Growth, Devon Murrie, 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.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed NTX's Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer, Jeffrey Hsu, 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.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Alchemie Technology's Product Specialist, Harry Vine, 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.

Small to the point of invisible, extremely persistent and all around us, fibre fragments represent one of the hidden costs we pay with our garments across all market segments, from activewear to luxury, posing a risk to our ecosystems and our health. This article informs readers about the ongoing discussions regarding definitions used in the industry, as well as pathways of fibre fragments and the current solutions to mitigate their impact.

This article is addressing the pressing question of how to reduce the environmental impact of dyes and printing processing.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed imogo's CEO & Technology, Joacim Wellander, 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.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Colorifix co-founders Orr Yarkoni (Chief Executive Officer) and Jim Ajioka (Chief Scientific Officer), 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.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Ambercycle co-founders Shay Sethi, CEO and Moby Ahmed, CTO, 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.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Josse Kunst, Chief Commercial Officer of CuRe Technology, 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.

CuRe Technology creates a fully circular polyester chain, by recycling all used polyester, including the colored, mixed, and contaminated!

The Fashion for Good Team asked 5 questions about ‘leather’ alternatives to Mira Nameth, CEO and founder of Biophilica.

Our Innovation Director (Validation), Georgia Parker, interviewed Mira Nameth, Founder and CEO at Biophilica, 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.

Biophilica transforms green waste into Treekind® – a compostable, plastic-free, estimated carbon neutral, and recyclable ‘leather’ alternative!

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.

Renewcell breaks down used cotton and other cellulose-rich textiles and transforms them into a new, raw material: Circulose® pulp.

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.

Circ™ recycles discarded clothing to return them to the raw materials from which they were made.

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.

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.

Oritain applies forensic and data science to verify the origin of products and raw materials.

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.

TextileGenesis™ is a pioneering traceability platform custom built for the fashion & textile ecosystem.

Ecovative is a materials science company unlocking the natural potential of mycelium with modern technology to create earth-compatible materials.

The Fashion for Good team interviewed Gavin Mclntyre, Co-founder and CCO at Ecovative, 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. 

Infinited Fiber Company focuses on turning post-consumer cotton-rich textile and cardboard waste into new cotton-like fibres.