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Canopy adds eight new fashion partners as industry pressure mounts to protect ancient forests

Environmental non-profit Canopy has expanded its fashion-sector coalition, adding eight companies to its Pack4Good and CanopyStyle initiatives in a move that underscores the industry’s accelerating pivot toward forest-free materials. Marc O’Polo, Victoria’s Secret & Co., Akyn, Mint Velvet, Spell, OUTnABOUT, DÔEN and ICICLE have all signed on to...

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Shoe circularity gets trial run: Footwear Collective pilots circular systems amid EPR push

While fashion’s recycling systems are steadily advancing, footwear remains one of the industry’s toughest circularity challenges. It is this challenge, however, that The Footwear Collective is looking to tackle head-on through a series of shoe-dedicated programmes that intend to address the lack of infrastructure readily available to this...

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Recover joins the T2T Alliance, the textile recyclers' lobby

Spanish company Recover has just announced it has officially joined the T2T Alliance. This association of recycling companies includes other leading and pioneering textile recycling firms such as Circ, Circulose, RE&UP, Syre and Samsara Eco. The alliance seeks to promote policies across the European Union to accelerate circularity within the...

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Textile Exchange Conference highlights need for collaboration, conservation and a holistic approach

The annual Textile Exchange Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, brought together the leading brands and players in the global fashion and textile industry. Around 1,600 participants – from farmers and material innovators to apparel manufacturers and recyclers – discussed innovative approaches to a sustainable supply chain in nearly 50 presentations...

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Berlin-based start-up Reverse.fashion secures H&M as an investor

The Berlin-based start-up Reverse.fashion GmbH has secured notable investors. The company announced on Friday that the Swedish clothing group Hennes & Mauritz participated in a pre-seed funding round led by the Berlin-based investment firm Kisora. The start-up, founded in 2024, develops automated sorting processes for used textiles to eliminate...

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TexCycle in Bulgaria: textile sorting, recycling and upcycling under one roof

How can fashion truly be kept in circulation? A visit to the TexCycle sorting and recycling plant in the Bulgarian port city of Varna showed what it means to sort 60 tons To help picture how much 60 tons are: A heavy household washing machine weighs about 100 kilograms; ten of those make up a ton and 600(!) of those 60 tons. of used clothing...

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New European Circular Textile Coalition advocates for more robust recycling policy

Eleven European textile companies have united in the new European Circular Textile Coalition to influence the policy agenda for circular textiles. In a manifesto, the members urge the EU to leverage post-consumer recycled (PCR) textiles as a catalyst for green jobs; textile industry innovation; and an improved competitive position. Reju,...

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MUD Jeans celebrates anniversary with sustainable denim innovation

To celebrate its 12.5-year anniversary, MUD Jeans is launching a pair of jeans made from 55 percent Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) cotton, sourced from collected used jeans. In a press release, MUD Jeans describes this as a breakthrough, since the typical proportion of recycled material in the industry is between 20 and 40 percent. The innovation...

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Circ announces first sourcing partnership with H&M

Circ, the only textile-to-textile recycler capable of taking polycotton blends and fully recovering both the polyester and the cellulose for reuse, is collaborating with the H&M Group. The move will see H&M incorporating Circ’s recycled fibres from polycotton textile waste into its product offerings for the first time. The first products will...

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Euratex’ ReHubs initiative to unveil roadmap to industrialise textile circularity by 2032

ReHubs, an initiative by the European Apparel and Textile Federation (Euratex) launched in 2020 to tackle Europe’s huge textile waste problem, will unveil a new strategy and tactical action plan to industrialise textile circularity by 2032. The new strategy is meant to be an “industry-wide roadmap and portfolio of initiatives designed to unlock...

Changemakers in fashion (part 4): Baptiste Carrière-Pradal, co-founder and director of 2B Policy

There are countless sustainability initiatives, but who in the fashion industry is truly driving the transition, whether their efforts are visible to the general public or not? We interview changemakers, consultants, sustainable fashion experts and activists. What can we learn from their work? In this fourth instalment, FashionUnited spoke with...

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Bestseller invests in German recycling company Matterr

Danish clothing group Bestseller unveiled a new strategic partnership with German recycling start-up Matterr on Wednesday. The group, which owns brands such as Vero Moda, Only and Jack & Jones, invested in the company through its investment arm, Invest FWD. Matterr specialises in chemical polyester waste recycling processes. It had previously...