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Murad partners with TerraCycle to launch recycling initiative

Clinical skincare brand Murad is launching an international packaging recycling programme in partnership with TerraCycle to divert plastic waste from landfills and transform them into new recycled products. The Murad Free Recycling Programme will allow customers to recycle Murad product packaging of its tubes, bottles, tubs, jars and containers,...

9 May 2022

Business

Seven innovators join Fashion for Good’s 2022 Asia Innovation Programme

Dutch organisation Fashion for Good has announced that seven new innovators have been selected to participate in its 2022 Asia Innovation Programme, the fourth edition of the project. The selected companies were chosen by the organisation’s brand and manufacturing partners during an event in Mumbai. The nine month programme will provide those...

8 Apr 2022

Fashion Featured

Europe to crackdown on fast fashion

The Europe Union wants to slow down the pace of fashion. By laying down a sustainable textile strategy the EU aims to tackle fashion’s environmental impact and labour abuses. The move was plainly summed up by Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, in a speech last year: “Fast fashion is poison for our planet,” The strategy outlines...

31 Mar 2022

BusinessFeatured

Sustainability round-up January 2022

As FashionUnited is continuing its monthly sustainability round-up in 2022, we have decided a change in format was in order. In the three years since the first regular round-up began, much has changed - sustainability has finally risen from “nice to have” to “must have” with companies increasingly realising that investing in sustainability also...

8 Feb 2022

Business

New digital platform aims to bring circular fashion to shopping experiences

The Loop Digital Wardrobe is a new sustainability and marketing platform developed with the goal of increasing the size of the circular fashion industry through digitisation and analytical data. Established by Jack Ostrowski, the founder of circular solutions firm Yellow Octopus, Loop similarly looks to make sustainable standards a part of the...

4 Feb 2022

Fashion Featured

Underwear brand Parade launches recycling programme

Inclusive underwear brand Parade is expanding its sustainability efforts with a free recycling programme in the US with international recycling leader, TerraCycle. ‘Second Life by Parade’ is a first-of-its-kind national recycling programme through TerraCycle for the underwear category, looking to divert unwanted underwear from landfill and help...

18 Jan 2022

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Roundup: sustainable initiatives of the fashion industry in 2021

The second pandemic year made it clear that sustainability is a must; the industry needs to renew and innovate. 2021 saw a number of collaborations, initiatives and commitments that will continue in 2022 and beyond. What is needed now is real change and goals that work towards it in the long term and seriously; it is too late for empty promises....

31 Dec 2021

Business

Recycle Router tool launches in UK to inform public on recycling

Three UK companies have come together to launch the Recycle Router tool to aid in informing the public on how, where and what to recycle. Software solutions company Provenance partnered with the sustainable consultant, Valpak, and Wrap, a British recycling charity, to develop the platform made to demonstrate how to recycle specific types of...

10 Dec 2021

Business

Fashion for Good launches project to scale polyester recycling

Dutch innovation platform Fashion for Good has announced the launch of its Full Circle Textiles Project - Polyester, with a goal to scale chemical recycling technologies and encourage financing and implementation into the wider industry. According to the organisation, polyester makes up 52 percent of the global fibre market, making it the most...

10 Dec 2021

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63 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in November 2021

November was characterised by important events like COP26 but there were also collaboration initiatives galore: between brands, between brands and material innovators, between brands and platforms and many more - the sky seemed the limit this month. Resale is still hot as many new ventures prove. Read on as FashionUnited highlights 63...

9 Dec 2021

Fashion

Global Fashion Agenda releases Scaling Circularity report

Nonprofit organisation, Global Fashion Agenda, has released its Scaling Circularity report in the wake of the COP26 conference. The report details the opportunities and investments needed in order to scale circular fashion systems. A key conclusion was that the fashion industry could become 80 percent more circular by 230, so long as there are...

22 Nov 2021

Business

Large scale Ikea and H&M Group study shows potential of recycled textiles

Inter Ikea, the holding controlling the Swedish furniture giant Ikea, and the H&M Group initiated a large-scale study in 2019 to analyse the chemical content in recycled textiles. The aim of the study has been to strategically increase the knowledge and to overcome challenges to exchange data, and stimulate chemical transparency across the...

7 Oct 2021