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Texon seeking "zerofootprint"
Texon, the producer of materials for the footwear industry, is seeking to achieve what it calls a “zerofootprint” by 2025. It is pledging over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint and use of virgin raw materials – particularly cellulose – by 50 percent, to increase the portion ...
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Surfdome and Patagonia partner to recycle poly bags
The European B2B publication Boardsport Source reports that Surfdome and Patagonia have embarked upon an initiative, called “Plastic Cutback,” to rethink the poly bag. According to Surfdome, 80 billion items of clothing are sold per year, almost all packed in poly bags, and 72 percent of all plastic, much of ...
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News briefsMilliken promotes circular economy with National Geographic
Milliken & Company, the textile manufacturer that acquired Polartec last year, has established a partnership with National Geographic to promote the circular economy. This is in keeping with one of the company’s objectives for 2025: to “convene scientists and thought-leaders to advance the goal of solving the plastics’ end-of-life challenge.” ...
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YKK signs Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action
The YKK Corporation has signed the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. The Fashion for Global Climate Action initiated calls on the fashion industry to recognize the industry’s contribution to climate change and its responsibility to achieve climate neutrality. YKK joins the more than 100 existing signatories of the charter, ...
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Puma acts against waste
According to sportstextiles.com, Puma has introduced a collection of sports apparel and footwear in conjunction with First Mile, a “people focused” company in the U.K. that collects waste from businesses and dispatches it to partners for recycling into yarn, the objective being to curtail the flow of waste into landfills. ...
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Puma addresses the water crisis
Puma has teamed up with the BA fashion course at Central Saint Martins (CSM), the London-based design school, to study sustainable technologies in textile manufacturing. The result is a “Day Zero” collection that consists of new takes on the RS-X3, Future Rider and Ralph Sampson Low shoes. Designed by CSM’s ...
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Timberland rewards patience with new trees
(OIC) According to Reuters, Timberland has since August been encouraging customers to choose four- to eight-day delivery, rather than standard three-day service. In exchange for every such exercise in patience, the outdoor brand will plant a tree. As a rule, of course, the slower the delivery, the less it costs ...
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Bergans fights for the seasons
(OIC) Bergans of Norway and WWF Norway delivered a letter to the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment in mid-January asking the Minister to help get the seasons – the actual seasons of the year – onto the UNESCO World Heritage List. The initiative originated with Bergans, which has entered ...
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Teva launches brand campaign
(OIC) Teva, a division of Deckers Brands, is launching “Strap In To Freedom,” a new brand campaign to celebrate its Original sandal collection and highlight its commitment to sustainability. All the straps across the brand’s 2020 collection are made of Repreve yarn, a performance fiber that itself is made of ...
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Toray is launching a PET-recycled iteration of Primeflex
(OIC) Toray is launching a PET-recycled iteration of its Primeflex series of flexible stretch fabric. The new version, which will be available in spring/summer 2021, is to meet the increasing demand by sportswear consumers for sustainability without compromising stretch. The Primeflex PET-recycled type incorporates recycled PET that would normally be ...
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New action by Adidas for the environment
Adidas has announced a new milestone for 2020, as more than 50 percent of the polyester used in its products will come from recycled plastic waste, said the company. This means that the sportswear giant will be on track to meet its goal of using only recycled polyester in all ...
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New tool to track sustainability
The United Nations Global Compact and B Lab have launched the SDG Action Manager, a new web-based tool that enables businesses to track their progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The impact management solution is available in five languages and is free to access for companies of all sizes worldwide. ...
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Asics manages climate risks
Asics has been awarded a position on the Supplier Engagement Leaderboard by CDP, a global environmental impact non-profit organization. CDP assessed more than 4,800 companies in order to assign them a Supplier Engagement Rating, which was based on answers to questions regarding targets, governance, scope 3 emissions, and value chain ...
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EU calls for better ideas on sustainability
The European Commission is seeking sustainable fashion ideas. This year’s European Social Innovation Competition has the theme “Reimagine Fashion: Changing behaviors for sustainable fashion,” and is seeking early-stage initiatives to reduce fashion’s environmental footprint and improve its societal effects. Solutions must be scalable at the local, national or European levels. ...
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Sympatex to present upcycled functional jacket at Ispo Munich
Sympatex is presenting the first upcycled functional jacket made from 30 percent recycled textiles and 70 percent recycled PET bottles at Ispo Munich. The three-layer high-performance jacket was developed and produced as part of the wear2wear consortium, the European industrial partnership founded in 2017, and announced by Sympatex in May ...
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YKK announces zippers made from ocean bound plastic.
YKK has announced a collection of zippers made from ocean bound plastic. The zippers of the new Natulon Ocean Sourced collection are made from plastic waste that has been collected within 50km of the coastline of Sri Lanka. According to YKK, the collection is indistinguishable from zippers made of virgin ...
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation launches Circulytics
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched Circulytics, a new digital tool for companies to measure circularity across all operations and help them adopt circular economy practices. The tool, which is available for free, goes beyond measuring products and material flows to measure a company’s entire circularity. It uses company-level data ...
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Puma and Ralph Lauren pledge not to ship through the Arctic Ocean
Puma and Ralph Lauren have joined the trans-Arctic shipping ban, a pledge to prohibit shipping through the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic Shipping Corporate Pledge was launched by Nike and Ocean Conservancy in October 2019 to invite companies to commit to not intentionally send ships through the delicate Arctic ecosystem. The ...
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Global Fashion Agenda adds three companies
The Swedish non-profit organization Global Fashion Agenda is further strengthening its group of Associate Partners by welcoming three new companies: TAL Apparel, VF Corporation and Zalando. Global Fashion Agenda is a leadership forum for industry collaboration on fashion sustainability and the organizer of the renowned Copenhagen Fashion Summit. It seeks ...
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Nike has just released Atsuma, a sneaker in which offcuts...
Nike has just released Atsuma, a sneaker in which offcuts and other scrap materials are rescued to become major components in cut-and-sewn shoes. Both the Swoosh on the medial and the hangtag are cut-outs. The shoe incorporates a recycled sock-liner as well. Nike has said that it is working to ...
