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California textile EPR deadline forces brands to register by July 1

Recycling
The first U.S. textile EPR law is moving from policy signal to compliance obligation, with apparel and home-textile producers...

UAE launches Naseej to turn textile waste into a circular economy priority

Environment
With 220,000 tonnes of textile waste generated annually, the UAE is moving from voluntary recycling efforts toward a coordinated...

Study flags toxic byproducts risk in electrochemical textile wastewater treatment

Environment
The finding does not weaken the case for wastewater treatment; it warns mills that lower energy cost and faster...

Nike’s 2026 world cup kits expose the hard limits of circular polyester

Environment
The uniforms are a technical milestone for textile-to-textile recycling, but they also show why circular fashion cannot be solved...

Pakistan textile exporters urged to prepare for carbon audits and EU climate compliance

Environment
Energy efficiency is moving from a cost-saving option to a market-access requirement for Pakistan’s textile industry. Pakistan’s textile sector must...

Target expands Syre partnership to scale textile-to-textile recycled polyester

Environment
The retailer’s circularity strategy is moving from brand commitments toward material offtake, with home and apparel expected to be...

BGMEA and GIZ sign MoU to push Bangladesh RMG toward greener compliance

Environment
The May 2026–February 2028 partnership targets the issues now shaping sourcing decisions: EU readiness, energy efficiency, circularity, worker protection...

Shein chemical allegations put fast-fashion safety under new scrutiny

Environment
The issue is no longer only ultra-low pricing. Regulators and laboratories are now asking whether some fast-fashion products carry...

Post-Consumer textile recycling still faces its hardest bottleneck: sorting

Recycling
At Textiles Recycling Expo USA, industry speakers warned that textile-to-textile recycling cannot scale until collection, sorting standards and downstream...

Techtextil 2026: KARL MAYER impresses as an innovative sector partner

Innovation
KARL MAYER looks back with satisfaction on its participation in Techtextil 2026. From April 21 to 24, the international...

Levi’s backs regenerative cotton push in Pakistan’s Punjab belt

Cotton
The three-year initiative moves cotton sustainability from farm-level compliance toward landscape restoration, water productivity and farmer resilience. Levi Strauss &...

Karl Mayer opens 5,000-square-metre textile innovation center in Germany

Innovation
The new Obertshausen facility gives brands, mills and technology partners a shared platform to move textile ideas from concept...

trinamiX expands mobile NIR for textile and footwear recycling

Environment
The new application enables on-site identification of textile blends and shoe components, giving manufacturers and recyclers faster material data...

Under Armour joins U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol with traceable cotton pilot in Freedom collection

Sustainability
The move gives the sportswear brand access to verified farm-level environmental data and signals how traceability is becoming a...

The Lab reframes fashion sustainability around care, not just consumption

Sustainability
The biotech fashion-care brand’s new campaign argues that extending garment life must become part of fashion’s sustainability agenda, alongside...

BB Engineering takes textile PET recycling message to PRSE 2026 with VacuFil and COBRA

Recycling
At Amsterdam’s Plastics Recycling Show Europe, the German machinery maker is positioning textile-to-textile PET recycling and lower-cost melt filtration...

Circulose and CTA push recycled lyocell closer to commercial scale

Recycling
The new agreement matters because it extends recycled cellulosic feedstock beyond viscose and into lyocell, a technically more demanding...

Digital product passports move from concept to compliance infrastructure

Sustainability
Forecasts point to explosive growth, but the real commercial story is that digital product passports are becoming a practical...

Fashion for Good targets Europe’s textile recycling bottleneck with new feedstock project

Sustainability
The initiative shifts the circularity debate away from recycling chemistry alone and toward the harder industrial challenge of delivering...

AAFA challenges California’s textile EPR rollout over Landbell PRO selection

Recycling
The dispute goes to the heart of how the first US textile EPR system will be governed: by a...
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