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Big fashion brands back Bangladesh recycling scheme

Over 30 fashion brands and manufacturers have joined a new initiative to collaborate on cutting down textile waste and reusing materials to create new products in Bangladesh’s garments factories. The Circular Fashion Partnership announced this week that it is bringing brands such as H&M, OVS, Marks & Spencer, Berska, Pull & Bear, C&A, Kmart...

12 Feb 2021

Fashion

Weekday launches jeans made from 100 percent post-consumer waste

H&M Group-owned brand Weekday has launched a limited-edition pair of its popular Rowe Jeans made of 100 percent post-consumer waste. Weekday teamed up with Infinited Fiber Company (IFC) to create the jeans made from a material comprising 50 percent organic cotton and 50 percent Infinna, which comes from 100 percent reborn textile waste. The...

5 Feb 2021

Business

These were the sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in 2020

The year 2020 started harmless enough with several good sustainability initiatives, but they were soon overshadowed by the global Corona pandemic. From March onwards, with lockdowns and restrictions for brick and mortar stores selling non-essentials like clothing, accessories and shoes, it was more about the survival of many brands and retailers...

31 Dec 2020

Business

20 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in December 2020

In December too, the fashion industry sought to advance its efforts towards more sustainability, recycling and a generally more circular economy. Particularly encouraging: collaborations between brands and tech hubs such as H&M with HKRITA, Bestseller and Cyclo, or Fashion for Good and Biofabricate to accelerate innovations. The last month of...

29 Dec 2020

Business

Adidas: more than 60 percent of products will be made with sustainable materials in 2021

From football jerseys made with recycled polyester to the vegan version of the iconic Stan Smith – in 2021, for the first time, more than 60 percent of all Adidas products will be made with sustainable materials like recycled polyester or sustainably grown cotton. Consumers can spot them easily by their ‘Primeblue’- and ‘Primegreen’ labels,...

29 Dec 2020

Business

Bestseller pushes circularity with two projects in Bangladesh

According to the motto “waste not, want not,” Danish fashion group Bestseller A/S is supporting two projects that are meant to accelerate its move to a more circular business model. One is about using the company’s own cutting waste and the other about creating recycling yarns. For both projects, Bestseller collaborates with suppliers in...

17 Dec 2020

Business

36 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in October 2020

In October, the fashion industry’s efforts in the areas of sustainability, resale and circularity seemed to have switched to a higher gear. Cooperations especially came through, be it to introduce innovative new materials, provide second hand clothes or ecological innovations. Brands and retailers are still going strong when it comes to becoming...

5 Nov 2020

Business

32 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in September 2020

In September, the fashion industry’s efforts in the areas of sustainability, resale and recycling continued. Brands and retailers have accepted the challenge to produce greener, more sustainable and resourceful products, campaigns and ways of operating. As far as cooperations are concerned, industry leaders and brands remain interested and join...

16 Oct 2020

Business

26 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in August 2020

The fashion industry's sustainability efforts continued this month with a vengeance - 26 such initiatives were announced in August 2020 alone. Cooperations between brands were in fashion but also those industry-wide or even industry-transcending ones that are concerned with guidelines and standards. At brand and retail level, more sustainable...

15 Sep 2020

Business

14 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in July 2020

The fashion industry's sustainability efforts continued in July - with efforts at brand level, such as more sustainable, circular or recyclable products, or with further-reaching solutions, such as waste water treatment, offsetting carbon emissions or tackling the plastic problem. FashionUnited has put together 14 sustainable initiatives that...

14 Aug 2020

Business

18 Sustainability efforts of the fashion industry in June 2020

What was already apparent in May continued in June as well: The fashion industry has recognised the importance of its sustainability efforts - commercially and for the sake of the environment - and even after Corona, fashion companies are making them a part of their budgets. The industry also seems to be recovering from the pandemic and finding...

16 Jul 2020

Business

Ireland named most likely EU country to recycle clothes

UK-based energy comparison company SaveOnEnergy has found that one positive aspect of the coronavirus pandemic is a consumer change in attitude towards old textiles and recycling clothes. In January of this year, the European countries contributing the most to textile waste were revealed, with Italy taking the lead, followed by Portugal and...

4 Jun 2020