Ecotextile News

🧐For anyone tracking the future of textiles, this week’s briefing shows just how much is shifting across brands, chemistry, recycling and regulation

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: China white paper signals shift in textile chemical thinking A new white paper- backed by Chinese textile chemical supplier Transfar and the China National Textile and Apparel Council- argues that green chemistry is no longer a sustainability nice-to-have. Its becoming a condition of trade. The report, Green Transformation Across the Entire Value Chain, makes a striking case: suppliers who can't provide transparent chemical data and credible hazard phase-out plans risk being locked out of major brand sourcing programmes entirely. As Charlie Xu, director and VP at Transfar Group传化集团, puts it: "The logic of competition is shifting — from cost efficiency to green access." 🔗 Full story in the comments below.

🗞️This week’s Weekly Briefing covers new supply chain partnerships, circular polyester scale-up, climate disclosure pressure, cotton risk and rising demands for product-level data. A fast B2B roundup of the textile and apparel stories shaping the sector. A special thank you to ANDRITZ for supporting this edition of the Weekly Briefing👇

💡The Lab’s “Take Care of the Things You Love” campaign reframes garment care through a cultural lens by connecting what we wear to memory, identity, and longevity. It marks a shift away from consumption toward ownership, and from replacement toward responsibility. 📍Click here to find out more: https://lnkd.in/enQhw76k The Lab | Biotech Fashion Care #EcotextileNewsPartner

💡This week’s Weekly Briefing covers France’s stalled anti-fast fashion law, new pressure on CFOs, a major circularity blueprint and the fight over low wages in garment supply chains. A quick B2B roundup of the textile and apparel stories shaping the sector👇🏼

This week’s Weekly Briefing covers Temu and Shein’s impact on German retail, Rana Plaza survivors’ boycott, counterfeit pressure, supply chain wages and more. A fast B2B round-up of the stories shaping textiles and fashion. 💡Thank you to Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) for supporting this flighting of the Weekly Briefing

📍Come and see the Ecotextile News team at the Partner Zone – Booth 307 – at the Textiles Recycling Expo USA in Charlotte, NC!📍

“Textile circularity is now a global policy priority – but one wrong move could unravel the whole system.” At today’s #TextileRecycling Expo in Charlotte, Jessica Franken, VP Government & External Affairs at Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART) – warned that emerging global rules on textile waste could have serious unintended consequences for circularity and access to affordable clothing. She highlighted how EPR for textiles is rapidly spreading, from the EU’s holistic package (eco-design rules, bans on destroying unsold stock, Digital Product Passports) to national schemes in Chile, Australia, the UK, Canada and China’s ambitious textile recycling targets. Taken together, they show “textile circularity and recycling and recovery is becoming a global policy priority across multiple continents.” But Franken cautioned that new UN and Basel Convention discussions risk being driven by flawed data and untested assumptions about used textiles and waste. Why does this matter? Because these narratives are feeding proposals under the Basel Convention to expand how textiles are classified as waste, introduce prior informed consent and enable outright bans on certain flows. Ecotextile News is on the ground in Charlotte tracking how UNEP’s Circularity and Used Textiles Trade project and Basel Convention talks could reshape global second‑hand flows – and what this means for brands, collectors, sorters and recyclers worldwide. #TextileRecycling #CircularEconomy #UsedTextiles #SecondHand #BaselConvention #UNEP #EPR #TextilePolicy #GlobalTrade #SustainableTextiles #EcotextileNews #Charlotte

“We’re standing at a remarkable crossroads.” Live from day one of the #TextileRecycling Expo in Charlotte, Kelly Drennan of Fashion Takes Action told a delegates that “Today, less than 1% of global fibre production comes from recycled textiles … but the question isn’t whether recycling is the solution, it’s whether the system that surrounds it is ready to support it.” “This isn’t just a technical challenge… it requires billions in investment across collection, sorting and processing systems.” Speakers at the Ecotextile News booth at today's event are saying if the ecosystem can align demand, data and design with IT infrastructure, policy and finance, fibre-to-fibre recycling could finally move from ambition to scalable action. Ecotextile News is on the ground in Charlotte this week, and will be reporting on: - Policy levers reshaping what’s possible - How retailers and brands are being pushed into new roles -The state of mechanical and chemical recycling - Collection and sorting – the critical bottleneck in the system Follow us here and at Ecotextile News for updates from #Charlotte or over at our website as the industry asks: are we really ready to turn circular ambition into scalable action? #TextileRecycling #CircularEconomy #FibreToFibre #TextileWaste #RecyclingInnovation #SustainableFashion #SustainableTextiles #ESG #Policy #SupplyChain #EcotextileNews

💡Check out our new article about The Lab | Biotech Fashion Care, which is launching its new campaign, Take Care of the Things You Love. More than a brand statement, it’s a provocation built on the idea that the future of fashion can’t only be about what we buy. It also needs to be about how we care for what we already own👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/eca6M6dz #EcotextileNewsPartner