Circular Economy
6 articles
Regenerative Agriculture's Textile Shift Promises Environmental Gains
Fast fashion's carbon emissions are 11 times higher than traditional fashion, releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
What is fashion's lifecycle assessment methodology for environmental impact?
Disposing of a garment after only 15 uses increases environmental impacts and resource use by 5.
Vestiaire Collective and Zalando Launch Fashion Resale Partnership
Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion retailer, just made a bold move: opening its digital doors to over 50 luxury brands' pre-owned items.
Riachuelo Launches Sustainable Denim With Recycled Cotton Waste
Over 10,000 pieces of denim, including jeans and jackets, have just hit the market in Brazil, made from an unexpected blend of recycled cotton waste and sugarcane-based elastane.
Bio-engineered fabrics: Why they matter for textile sustainability
A novel bio-recycling method recovers both polyester (PET) fibers and glucose from common 50/50 cotton/PET blend fabric waste, offering a radical solution to textile pollution, according to Academia .
Claras Materials Launches US Operations to Solve Textile Recycling Supply Shortages
Even as advanced machines can now turn old clothes into new fibers, the global textile recycling industry has been starved of its most basic ingredient: a consistent, clean supply of post-consumer was