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H&M Foundation’s Textile Futures 2040 report outlines four scenarios for global textile manufacturing

Environment
New research explores how artificial intelligence, climate disruption, shifting economic power and circularity could reshape textile production, sourcing and...

New cotton playbook urges fashion brands to share climate risks and rethink sourcing strategies

Environment
Avalo, the US Cotton Trust Protocol and TextileGenesis have released 11 recommendations calling for longer purchasing commitments, stronger fibre...

Primark joins denim deal to scale recycled cotton and circular denim production

Environment
The fashion retailer is expanding its circular denim strategy through industry collaboration, building on its first collection containing at...

Pure Loop’s DynaShape automation boosts plastic recycling productivity by up to 10%

Technology
The EREMA Group subsidiary’s adaptive control technology improves recycling throughput, material consistency and operating stability, with potential applications in...

Blue earth selects 10 textile and circular fashion innovators, names VNYX investment winner

Environment
Blue Earth’s 2026 investment programme highlights emerging technologies in sustainable fibres, textile recycling, biotechnology and AI-powered garment resale, with...

Algae-Based black pigment wins TIME recognition as sustainable textile printing advances

Events
Living Ink Technologies’ carbon-negative Algae Black pigment is gaining commercial traction, offering apparel and textile manufacturers a bio-based alternative...

Pakistan launches green finance toolkit for textile SMEs

Environment
The SBP–WWF initiative translates Pakistan’s Green Taxonomy into factory-level metrics and investment options, potentially linking textile decarbonisation more directly...

BGMEA moves toward mandatory ESG reporting for 2,500 garment factories

Business
Bangladesh is shifting sustainability from individual factory certification toward sector-wide data disclosure as buyers increasingly demand evidence on carbon,...

EU PFHxA limits take effect for clothing and footwear as PFAS compliance tightens

Environment
Exporters must now control PFHxA contamination at parts-per-billion levels, pushing chemical traceability, supplier declarations and laboratory testing deeper into...

Nike, Patagonia and Lululemon join new alliance to tackle textile microfiber pollution

Environment
The initiative shifts microfiber action upstream—from consumer washing toward fabric design, manufacturing processes and mill-level filtration. The Nature Conservancy (TNC)...

Textile exchange projects 3–5 million tonnes of textile-recycled fibre by 2030

Environment
New modelling highlights the gap between recyclable textile feedstocks and usable fibre, with collection, sorting and processing limiting supply. Textile...

Amazon, Stella McCartney and Canopy launch coalition to scale lower-carbon fashion

Environment
More than 60 participants will combine demand, financing and technical resources to help material innovations reach commercial production. Amazon, Stella...

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...
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