Sustainability has grown to become an industry-wide focus, but some frontrunners had low-impact fashion on their agendas even earlier. For our latest Blue Cast podcast episode, sustainability pioneer Giusy Bettoni joined Lenzing’s Michael Kininmonth for a chat about building a more responsible fashion industry. Giusy is...
The environmental impact of a garment extends beyond its manufacturing to include how it's transported and retailed. And one piece of this carbon footprint is packaging. Nexgen Packaging is mindful of its sustainability footprint. In service of this, it has been developing innovations that use recycled...
What’s even better than carbon neutrality? A net-zero carbon footprint combined with circularity. Lenzing is joining these two sustainability credentials in its recently launched carbon-zero TENCEL™ with REFIBRA™ technology fibers. REFIBRA™ uses recycled cotton as a portion of the inputs for lyocell, creating an identical material...
Social entrepreneur Kerry Bannigan has had a front-row seat to the fashion industry’s shifting attitudes toward sustainability. Earlier in her career, Kerry worked in events, including producing fashion shows. Taking these beyond just design showcases, she would work with governments to highlight aspects such as textile...
To keep fashion out of landfills, the target solution for much of the fashion industry today is circularity. Taking back garments and reusing them for new apparel or textiles lowers the need for new raw materials and cuts back on fashion’s wastefulness. Worn Again Technologies founder...
Today is World Circular Textiles Day. Established last year by Circle Economy, University Arts London Centre for Circular Design and Worn Again Technologies, WCTD is held annually on Oct. 8 to celebrate what companies and organizations are doing to move toward a circular future. Lenzing...
Reducing fashion’s carbon footprint has never been more imperative. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that without immediate and widespread intervention in shrinking emissions, it will be impossible to keep global warming limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. According to the United Nations,...
Reducing fashion’s carbon footprint has never been more imperative. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that without immediate and widespread intervention in shrinking emissions, it will be impossible to keep global warming limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. According to the United Nations,...
Reducing fashion’s carbon footprint has never been more imperative. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that without immediate and widespread intervention in shrinking emissions, it will be impossible to keep global warming limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. According to the United Nations,...
Companies across the apparel industry are making a push toward circularity as a means to lower the environmental impact of garments. And to further individual firms' efforts, collective initiatives are forming to quicken and advance progress. On Oct. 8, individuals from around the globe will come...
Collaboration is going to be key in driving sustainable change in the fashion industry. This is especially true for creating more circular garments. In a single garment, there are numerous inputs—fabric, trims, dye and more—that all need to be considered to make clothing that can more...
Collaboration and circularity are the next frontier in textile and fashion transformation. By working together, sharing ideas and vision, in 2020 we first created the lookbook and design tool called THE CIRCLE BOOK from the ACT TOGETHER partnership between TENCEL™, Meidea and Officina+39. Transparency is the foundation...