Textiles

Recycling technology
How AI recycling technology can transform the circular economy

Digital product passports for textiles
Digital Product Passports for textiles: What businesses should know

Lars Rensing, CEO of Protokol, speaks on the need to embrace Digital Product Passports for textiles, to increase circularity within the fashion industry

Clothing retail partnerships
Clothing retail partnerships helping to sustain the planet

SATCoL’s Corporate Donations scheme enables brands to donate excess, returned and faulty stock - diverting items away from waste and supporting the circular economy

Polyester textiles recycling
From fibre to fibre: Polyester textiles recycling
By
Savannah Coombe
| 13 October 2023 |
Resource explains the problem with polyester textiles recycling and what barriers are being overcome to mainstream it
Digital Product Passports for textiles
Trace4Value partnership creating Digital Product Passports for textiles
By Resource |
13 September 2023 |
Stockholm-based TrusTrace has announced its collaboration in the Trace4Value initiative to advance sustainability through enhancing transparency
UKRI invests £6 million in sustainable UK textile industry
By
Savannah Coombe
| 18 August 2023 |
The investment aims to assist the fashion and textile industry in integrating more sustainable and responsible practices
Prevention waste construction
Summarising Defra's waste prevention policy paper
By Resource |
31 July 2023 |
Last Friday, Defra released a policy paper outlining the progress Government is making in its aim to prevent waste in England, here's a summary of what it contained 
Textile waste
ZWE calls for EU textile waste reduction targets
By
Josh Templeman
| 27 July 2023 |
The report from Zero Waste Europe criticises the lack of legally-binding targets within the revisions of the EU’s Waste Framework Directive to prevent textiles waste and decarbonise the sector
Plastic bottles
Systemiq roadmap could see 70 per cent reduction in PET plastic waste
By
Savannah Coombe
| 11 July 2023 |
The Systemiq roadmap aims to achieve a high–circularity, low–emissions system for PET plastic packaging and polyester textiles in Europe
New balls please: what happens to the 300 million tennis balls discarded every year?
New balls please: what happens to the one billion tennis balls used each year?
By
Jennifer McDowall
| 10 July 2023 |
This week sees the end of The Wimbledon Championship, but what happens to all those used tennis balls once the tournament is over?
EPR for textiles included in revision of EC's Waste Framework Directive
Revision to Waste Framework Directive sets out EPR for textiles
By
Charles Newman
| 6 July 2023 |
Update to key European Union legislation targets improvement to capture of clothing, shoes and food waste
Textiles in bales
UK is falling behind in its textiles strategy
By
Alan Wheeler
| 3 July 2023 |
Alan Wheeler, CEO of the Textile Recycling Association, looks at some of the challenges facing the industry
Textile waste in piles
Salvation Army plans first commercial-scale polyester recycling facility
By
Josh Templeman
| 29 June 2023 |
The Salvation Army’s trading arm says it has developed a process to recycle polyester back into raw material, to be used in its Kettering textiles recycling plant
Love not Landfill Reuse Clothing
Report outlines the carbon footprint of London's fashion habits
By
Josh Templeman
| 28 June 2023 |
The report reveals waste figures in the fashion industry, highlighting the pressing need for coordinated change
Traceability platform to facilitate supply chain transformation
By Resource |
27 June 2023 |
TrusTrace has launched its second industry playbook ‘The Traceability Roadmap’ at the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen
Textile waste pile clothing
New £4m automated sorting plant for waste textiles announced
By
Savannah Coombe
| 15 June 2023 |
The plant has the potential to divert tens of thousands of tonnes of waste textiles from landfill each year
European Parliament
European Parliament shows red card to ‘out-of-control’ fashion industry
By
Savannah Coombe
| 1 June 2023 |
Vote in favour of the Environment Committee’s position to address the fashion industry’s largely unregulated and negative impact
Soft furnishing furniture couch sofa armchair
What’s happening with ‘Persistent Organic Pollutants’ (aka POPs)?
By
Savannah Coombe
| 24 May 2023 |
Resource looks at the background of the POPs restrictions and legislation
Image of commercial premises recycling, highlighting Welsh Government decision to postpone rules on separate recycling of business waste
Wales defers business recycling reforms until 2024
By
Charles Newman
| 3 May 2023 |
Decision follows consultation feedback from stakeholders operating non-domestic premises
Few home textiles are recycled
Almost a quarter of home textiles currently thrown away
By Resource |
3 May 2023 |
WRAP report finds that items such as towels, linen and curtains represent a missed opportunity for recycling and reuse.
Coachtopia launch leather bag 2023
Fashion house Coach launches new sub-brand with plans for full circularity
By
Savannah Coombe
| 27 April 2023 |
The launch of Coachtopia aims to move the fashion brand towards a fully circular business model
Lorna Slater Textiles Scottish Parliament
Scottish Gov to consult on mandatory textile collection
By
Savannah Coombe
| 21 April 2023 |
Mandatory textiles collections by local authorities may be introduced by 2025 in Scotland. On Wednesday (19 April), Lorna Slater confirmed that the Scottish Government would be launching a consultation on the matter
WRAP ends Love Your Clothes campaign
WRAP ends ‘Love Your Clothes’ campaign
By
Savannah Coombe
| 11 April 2023 |
The campaign, which was started 2014, is being closed in response to ‘a change in funding priorities’