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The apparel and footwear giant says its scale requires it to address textile waste and to design out waste from the beginning.
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The EU-funded New Cotton Project aims to collect, sort and regenerate old clothing into new items for sale on the high street.
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Plus, biodiversity is in style.
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Fast fashion has destructive impacts on the environment and people. Buying secondhand clothing could provide consumers a way to push back against the fast-fashion system.
by Hyejune Park
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Developed to provide a blueprint for environmental action, LCAs often sow seeds of discord. What can be done to fix that?
by Karine Vann
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In order to scale its solution, the labeling and embellishment manufacturer must partner with apparel companies and other stakeholders.
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From Levi's first resale offering to H&M's first in-store garment-to-garment recycling system, the runaway for innovation is intriguing.
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As fashion brands adapt and survive, they can drive a renewed vision of how to decouple volume growth from value growth.
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The summit, which took place during Paris Fashion Week, presented a glimpse of our technological fashion future and showed that there's room to push our circular impact and ambition.
by Lilian Liu
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Millions of fashion supply chain workers are expected to lose jobs by the end of the year due to the global COVID-19 crisis. A recovery must center people who've been most affected.
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In the choice between one waste stream or another, the circular economy envisions secret option No. 3: a world in which decisions aren’t made through a convoluted calculus weighing the lesser of two evils.
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Companies across the fashion industry have deployed pilots for circular — or more sustainable — products, but too often they stop there.
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Building a circular economy will need disruptive ideas that shift the status quo — and these five startups showcased at Circularity 20 could be those innovators.
by Holly Secon
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As Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi said, 'Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.'
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The lack of environmental impact information and outdated technology are two ubiquitous issues plaguing industrial supply chains in general, but they are especially significant in the context of the fashion industry.
by Phylicia Wu
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This company is trying to show the world that we can create industrial systems that are beneficial to humanity and to our habitat.
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If we can't keep certain items from winding up in oceans or landfills, we should redesign with the expectation of that leakage.
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Man-made cellulosic fibers, the second biggest cellulosic fiber group after cotton, holds huge untapped potential to transform the fashion industry, according to Forum for the Future and the Textile Exchange.
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The company plans to launch a product line using leather sourced from operations that use practices to improve soil health, biodiversity and natural ecosystems.
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Meat companies have a unique consideration when it comes to packaging: managing plastics contaminated by organic, biological material.
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Eon, an IoT platform, is working with the fashion companies and retailers to minimize waste and build the infrastructure for circular business models.
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Plus, an interview with water strategist Will Sarni.
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Ultra-cheap oil and COVID-19 are threatening companies' attempts to clean up their acts on plastic.
by Elsa Wenzel
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A wrap-up of recent research on sustainable business and the clean economy.
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The company's sustainability goals, part of the Ambition 2030 campaign, include making its packaging 100 percent recyclable or reusable in the next 10 years.