circular economy news and archive

Something old, something borrowed: the rise of resale and rental in fashion

Fast fashion brands drop new collections as often as every two weeks, illustrating the fast cycle of manufacturing, buying and disposing of which drives the f

Jan 31, 2020

One Consignor's experience selling clothes on The RealReal

IN DEPTH It took me the most of a year to be convinced that parting with my beloved often unworn designer items online was th

Jan 23, 2020

What does the EU's Green Deal mean for the textile industry?

The European textile industry has to waste less and recycle more after being highlighted as a key sector by the European Commission in its industrial st

Dec 13, 2019

The second hand clothing market is thriving

Aug 19, 2019

Fashion companies unite to create digital ID to enable circularity

“Circularity” is replacing “sustainability” as the buzzword in the fashion industry. After all, it doesn’t suffice for companies to rethink the mate

Jul 17, 2019

Fashion brands have only met 21 percent of their circularity targets for 2020

Signatories of the 2020 Circular Fashion System Commitment, an initiative launched in 2017 by the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), will have to hurry up if th

Jul 9, 2019

​Pushing sustainability: Lenzing to use more textile waste in its products

With an ever-increasing consumer demand for more sustainable products, the fashion industry is facing mounting pressure to become a more circular economy,

Feb 8, 2019

Fashion for Good launches toolkit on how to develop Cradle to Cradle denim

Fashion for Good, the global initiative to make the fashion industry more innovative and sustainable, is launching the world’s first toolkit on the product

Aug 16, 2018

Global Change Award 2018: 'We need to speed up the shift towards a circular economy'

Stockholm - Making new fibers and textiles out of food crop waste was the public's favourite sustainable innovation from the 2018 Global Change Award, a

Mar 20, 2018

Stella McCartney & Ellen MacArthur team up to tackle textile waste

London - The fashion industry's current business model, which sees a huge amount of clothing produced only to be thrown away after a few wears, needs to be

Nov 28, 2017

'Indigo Goes Green': Hyun Yeu on Kingpins

REVIEW Amsterdam -Taking place twice a year, Kingpins isthe place to be for denim lovers from around the world. A wide range of fabric manufacturers, denim

Oct 26, 2017

C&A Foundation highlights 'Gaps to overcome for clean & circular fashion'

London - As Chinese textile manufacturers and leading fashion brands continue to investigate ways to clean-up their supply chains and become more sustainabl

Aug 30, 2017