Circular Fashion Partnership officially launched

Over 30 renowned fashion brands, manufacturers and recyclers are collaborating in a new initiative to capture and reuse textile waste in Bangladesh.

Global Fashion Agenda today announced the participants of the Circular Fashion Partnership, including the global brands Bershka, Bestseller, C&A, Gina Tricot, Grey State, H&M Group, Kmart Australia, Marks & Spencer, OVS, Pull & Bear, Peak Performance and Target Australia. The Circular Fashion Partnership is a cross-sectorial project led by Global Fashion Agenda, with partners Reverse Resources, The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and P4G, that aims to achieve a long-term, scalable transition to a circular fashion system*.

February 01

Ann Runnel

HOW MUCH DOES GARMENT INDUSTRY ACTUALLY WASTE?

Post-consumer waste has been under central discussion of the circular economy in fashion industry for the last 5 years. Same time, RR team has been mainly working on building statistics and data to estimate the volumes of industrial waste from fashion production. Any public data about this matter is globally unaccessible. However, based on the research we’ve done mapping out the post-industrial waste in 20 countries, we can make some estimates.

December 08, 2020

Ann Runnel

The challenges of textile waste management in India when turning fashion circular

Reverse Resources had an opportunity to participate in a panel discussion at CAIF Conclave on November 6th 2020 in a discussion about the textile waste management challenges in India. It's interesting to understand how the challenges and market barriers are somewhat different compared to Bangladesh where RR has worked most in. Yet, the solution may be rather similar - building transparent supply chains with support from digital tools and enabling large-scale collaboration with win-win benefits.
Great thanks to Intellecap to put together such a great illustration of the problem. Looking forward to run a pilot in India to demonstrate RR solution to the full extent!

October 15, 2020

Ann Runnel

Launch of Circular Fashion Partnership

On October 13, 2020 at CFS+ we launched publicly the Circular Fashion Partnership in collaboration with Global Fashion Agenda and BGMEA, funded by P4G Partnerships. It is a collaboration project and call to action to support the recycling of textile waste in Bangladesh. The first signatories of the CFP include Bestseller and OVS.

September 12, 2020

Ann Runnel

How to get accurate data about fashion industry impacts?

An article by Alden Wicker on Vox discussed the misinformation problem of fashion industry and how it's bad for the environment. The data we have is wrong, missing or misleading, and it seems we can't make it better. At Reverse Resources we've seen close-up how lack of good data leads to a series of problems. However, the solution may be different from what you'd intuitively think in the first place.