The EU’s sustainable fashion strategy aims to make textiles more durable, repairable, and recyclable by 2030, introducing new design rules and a Digital Product Passport...
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The VETting Green consortium has developed a policy brief to empower consumers and companies in the footwear and apparel sectors to identify and avoid misleading...
The EIT KICs Position Paper for a Circular and Sustainable Fashion and Textiles Industry in Europe presents a targeted innovation agenda to drive systemic change...
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The European Commission has introduced a new category - small mid‑caps (250–749 employees) to ease the regulatory ‘cliff‑edge’ for scaling companies and support growth for...
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A recent WRAP report, "Displacement Rates Untangled," reveals that repair and resale models significantly reduce new clothing purchases. Repairing five garments avoids four new purchases...
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R&I, techniques and technological solutionsSkillsTextile+7 meer
The 2024/2025 Monitor for Circular Fashion report by SDA Bocconi School of Management's Sustainability Lab analyses the Italian fashion industry's shift towards circularity, highlighting new...
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The European Commission introduced the Omnibus IV package in May 2025 to simplify rules, ease bureaucracy, and save EU businesses around €400 million annually, all while...
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The Monitor for Circular Fashion (M4CF) SDA Bocconi presented the 2024/2025 Circular Fashion Manifesto. This manifesto represents a collective commitment by companies across the fashion supply chain...
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A paper in the Journal of Cleaner Production shows that both emotional experiences, positive and negative, play a key role in why consumers choose repair...
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The CISUTAC project has released a report proposing guidelines for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) to support the EU's transition to a circular economy. The report...
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