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Primark signs multi-year circ deal to bring textile-to-textile polyester to mass market

Sustainability
Primark’s first long-term offtake agreement with a textile-to-textile recycler tackles one of circular fashion’s biggest barriers: guaranteed demand for...

Pakistan’s Neela joins low-carbon denim project linking cotton genetics to cleaner finishing

Denim
The Naturalls collection combines lower-input US cotton, renewable-content LYCRA fibre and resource-saving finishing, illustrating how denim decarbonisation increasingly requires...

Levi Strauss and M&S launch renewable-energy platform for global fashion suppliers

Sustainability
The Fashion Renewable Collaborative aims to replace fragmented brand requests with a common pathway for mills and garment factories...

Europe targets 50% biobased and circular fibre share by 2050 in new textile strategy

Fibres
Textile ETP wants Europe to rebuild fibre and biomanufacturing capacity as fossil dependence and Asian production concentration create both...

Fashion sourcing linked to 1.45 billion hectares of farmland, Oxford-DIRT study estimates

Environment
The research shifts the sustainability debate from simply choosing a fibre to understanding how cotton, wool, leather and other...

EU textile circularity faces a business-model problem, not just a recycling technology gap

Sustainability
New PESCO-UP research finds that Europe’s textile-recycling scale-up is constrained simultaneously by feedstock quality, economics, fragmented supply chains, uncertain...

Cascale resets 2030 strategy as industry pushes beyond sustainability measurement

Sustainability
The Higg Index steward wants its next phase to convert years of environmental and social data into investment and...

EU textile circularity moves from strategy to infrastructure as DPP and EPR take shape

Trade
Europe’s textile transition is shifting from sustainability commitments toward product-level data, producer-funded waste systems and industrial fibre-to-fibre recycling. Europe’s textile...

EU’s €4 million MELANGE project targets 50% cut in textile dyeing water and chemicals

Environment
The Horizon Europe initiative moves colour decisions upstream to the fibre stage, aiming to reduce wet-processing intensity while turning...

New GRTS standard extends GOTS-style certification beyond organic fibres

Environment
The Global Responsible Textile Standard brings plant, animal, regenerated cellulosic and recycled fibres under a common processing, traceability and...

Bluesign takes greenwashing fight to consumers with new bluepass label

Environment
The certification specialist is moving from back-end factory assessments to consumer-facing proof, just as new EU rules tighten scrutiny...

RE&UP’s Next-Gen Cotton fibers power Zalando t-shirt collection crafted from recycled textiles

Cotton
RE&UP Recycling Technologies’ Next-Gen Cotton powers a new collection from Zalando’s private labels, marking a step forward in bringing...

Taiwan consortium develops 99.5%-pure polyester recycling route for complex footwear waste

Recycling
The award-winning process tackles polyurethane and elastane contamination while supporting a wider shift toward mono-material polyester footwear designed for...

Driving circularity with Uster Recycled Fiber Matrix

Fibres
The textile industry’s commitment to circularity continues to accelerate, and mechanical recycling is viewed as a targeted approach to...

UKFT sustainability conference spotlights seaweed fibres, PFAS-free finishes and physical traceability

Environment
The 2026 innovation programme shows where textile sustainability is moving next: bio-based stretch, agricultural-waste fibres, safer chemistry and technologies...

OEKO-TEX says traceability is shifting from competitive advantage to market-access requirement

Environment
Its 2025/26 annual report shows rapid growth in traceable organic cotton and product labelling as regulation increasingly demands verifiable...

Textile waste recycling machinery market could reach $7.1 billion by 2034

Machinery
Demand for automated sorting, fibre-opening and recycling systems is rising as textile producers face mounting pressure to convert post-industrial...

Aalto researchers strip up to 99.3% of reactive dye from cotton for fibre-to-fibre recycling

Environment
A two-stage reduction–oxidation process turns dark reactive-dyed cotton into light, redyeable feedstock while retaining about 87% of tensile strength,...

Donghua process recovers 99% of polyester monomer while preserving cotton and spandex

Fibres
The selective chemical-recycling process operates at 80°C and leaves more than 96% of companion cotton and elastane intact, addressing...

Bangladesh makes plastic EPR mandatory with 15% collection target

Sustainability
New rules shift responsibility for post-consumer plastic to producers, importers and brand owners, introducing collection, recycling, reporting and plastic-credit...
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