Focus Areas

    Raw Materials

    The fashion supply chain starts with the sourcing and extraction of raw materials. A significant portion of a material’s environmental footprint is determined at this stage.

    Processing

    Processing includes the pretreatment, colouration and finishing of fibres, yarns, fabrics to achieve the performance and aesthetic properties desired by brands and consumers.

    Manufacturing & Retail

    The manufacturing and retail stage aims to reduce textile waste accumulation and over production, to optimise efficiency, and to extend the life of products.

    End of Use

    End-of-use looks to extend the life of materials and garments by enabling technologies, infrastructure and innovations that can redirect garments into recycling and reuse.

    Transparency & Traceability

    Transparency and traceability is the process of making information available to understand how fibres and materials were sourced, processed and produced through the supply chain.

    Investments

    While there is an extensive pipeline of innovations emerging across the supply chain, significant investment is required to pilot, implement and scale these solutions.

Sorting for Circularity Europe Expands to Address Rewearable Textile Crisis

Published on 18/01/2024
Fashion for Good's Sorting for Circularity framework expands to address the challenge of ensuring rewearable textiles remain in use as opposed to finding their way into global waste streams or landfills. This 18-month project tests automated sorting technologies using artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimise the sorting of rewearable garments and enable greater circularity. 
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    Key findings from the Fast Feet Grinded Collaborative Pilot

    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.
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    Unpacking the Packaging Problem: Solutions and Strategies

    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.
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    Not So Micro: an Exploration of the Impact of Fibre Fragmentation

    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.
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    Fashion for Good launches the Feedstock Assessment for Biosynthetic Innovation

    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.