Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the UK to introduce the “Textiles 2030”. The Textiles 2030 is a new ground-breaking, expert-led initiative, harnessing UK leaders’ knowledge and expertise in sustainability to accelerate the whole fashion and textiles industry’s move towards circularity and system change in the UK.
Textiles 2030 is a voluntary agreement to be funded by its signatories and government. Signatories will collaborate on carbon, water, and circular textile targets and contribute to national policy discussions with UK governments to shape Extended Producer Responsibility and other critical regulatory developments.
With an official launch in April 2021, the new voluntary agreement builds on the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP 2020). It aims to engage the majority of UK fashion and textiles organizations in collaborative climate action.
SCAP has successfully brought together fashion retailers, charity retailers, and textile recyclers to reduce the impacts of clothing consumed in the UK. From 2012 to 2020, the pioneering industry-led action plan has delivered positive environmental and economic outcomes for forward-looking UK fashion and textiles organizations. WRAP has convened working groups, helped signatories identify improvement actions, set targets, measured and verified progress, and shared expertise and best practice, enabling a significant proportion of the UK textiles industry to reduce the carbon, water, and waste impacts of clothing products.
Over 90 organizations representing more than 48% of UK retail clothing sales made the voluntary SCAP Commitment to reduce their products’ impacts collectively. Therefore, the WRAP’s initiative Textiles 2030 is the big game-changer in the world of Textiles.
