Natalie Glaze suspects sales of her bikinis might not have gone so fast without the help of Sir David Attenborough. Shortly before Glaze and her business partner Zanna Van Dijk created their sustainable clothing brand Stay Wild Swim, the doyen of TV nature documentaries appeared on TV in the second series of Blue Planet. “His …
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that it is estimated that a third of all the food produced in the world is wasted. But the textile industry, which accounts for 6.7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study by Quantis International— finds a role to play in efforts …
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Right of reply A NEXT spokesperson said: “As part of the contractual obligation, NEXT suppliers must comply with our disposal policy. An excerpt of the following: – Under Clause 8.5 of Next’s Terms and Conditions of Purchase, Suppliers CANNOT dispose of Rejected, Secondary, Excess, Sample or Canceled Inventory UNLESS the Inventory is sold via Next …
When Chloe Songer and Stuart Ahlum launched shoe brand Thousand Fell shortly before the pandemic, they wanted to prove that it was possible to recycle their shoes again and again – and make a profit, too. Their vision was, if not quite mainstream, at the heart of environmental activists’ advocacy for circular fashion – the …
Julien Born, CEO of The LYCRA Company | Photo courtesy of LYCRA Christian Chensvold, contributing writer | Thursday, August 4, 2022 When it comes to wearing clothes, one of the highest virtues is simplicity. When it comes to making them, it’s efficiency. And now the LYCRA Companythe global textile giant, plans to make this much …
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Fashion has an overconsumption problem and we all know it. It’s not just the terrifying images of clothes clogging Ghana’s beaches and Chile’s Atacama Desert that tell us we’re buying too much; these are the parcels that fall into the mailbox every week, the hyperactive Paypal accounts and the unworn pieces forgotten in the back …
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The latest in a growing wave of circular textile innovations, the materials science company and global retailer have both launched collections that transform waste into new, colorful textiles that require no dyeing. Pangaia Re-color Capsule transforms scrap materials into colorful dyes ‘This hoodie is colored using technology that recycles our textile waste into new colors’ …
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California-based Boox — which CEO Matt Semmelhack says is on track to ship 1.3 million Boox boxes in 2022, up from around 100,000 in inaugural year 2021 — has launched a new service “almost directly aimed at SB54,” says Semmelhack. It urges brands to return both the Boox shipper and the inner packaging material for …
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Longchamp’s signature Le Pliage® gives us more reason to love it with a new collection called Le Pliage® Re-Play that uses leftover canvas stocks to champion zero waste. Comprised of three formats – a spacious upright tote, a small shoulder bag and a trendy belt bag – each bag combines two different colors of end-of-roll …
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