Wendy Barahona Savage

Fast fashion comes with hidden costs: exploitative labor practices and severe environmental damage. Rapid production cycles often mean poor working conditions and low wages for workers. Additionally, this industry contributes significantly to water pollution, textile waste, and carbon emissions. #SustainableFashion #EthicalConsumerism #EnvironmentalAwareness https://lnkd.in/ehBQ6JAW

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Founded in 2015, California-based unspun™, provides 3D weaving technology eliminating waste and emissions and enabling circular production for the fashion sector, while lowering production costs. The company’s technology, Vega, weaves thousands of yarns into garments in minutes, which unspun said allows for almost zero-waste, on-demand, local manufacturing. According to unspun, the technology allows traditional cut-make-trim facilities to make clothing four times faster, with 53% emissions reduction, 49% reduced energy demand and a 39% reduction in blue water consumption. It also said its process is more efficient, with less than 3% waste of cut fabric compared to the industry average of 15%. https://lnkd.in/ezB3EsCz

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"For the consumer packaged goods sector, the aim of reuse is to significantly reduce the virgin materials being used. But an ineffective, poorly executed system can perpetuate the need for even more virgin materials by failing to recover reusables after they’ve been released onto the market. Reuse is about systems before packaging." Yes, thanks for this, Upstream. And the same could be said for recyclable packaging. A material that is hypothetically recyclable but doesn't have wide-spread systems in place (and/or a viable end market) shouldn't be called "recyclable." #packaging #CPG #reuse #recycle #sustainability #petrochemicals #plastic

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News from #ClimateWeekNYC! 📢 The Forest Finance Risk Consortium launched the "Deforestation Disclosure Guide for Financial Institutions Towards integrated nature- and climate-related financial disclosure". Learn how to disclose deforestation and land-use change risks, incorporate them into climate- and nature-related financial disclosures, and understand nature protection’s role in net-zero transition plans. To support effective deforestation disclosure, the guide outlines four essential steps:   (1) adopting deforestation-free finance guidance and joining collaborative finance sector initiatives,  (2) disclosing annually through deforestation-specific disclosure,  (3) integrating deforestation into climate- and nature-related financial disclosures and transition plans,  (4) working towards holistic disclosure. Join the increasing number of financial institutions who are taking steps to reduce financed deforestation and to disclose their impacts:  👉Download the report: https://lnkd.in/euASuTEd  👉Register for the November 14th training: WBCSD Events - Deforestation Disclosure Training for Financial Institutions (salesforce-sites.com) #NYCW #financialdisclosure #deforestationfreefinance   Gretel Gambarelli, Fiona Cromarty, James d'Ath, Monique Ewerton, Natasha Ferrari, Benjamin Simonds, Kasha Foster, Bernard de Galembert, Matt Inbusch, Nicholas Jackson, Vemund Olsen, Bethany Ridley-Moran, Tomasz Sawicki, Lara Yacob, CDP, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Lloyds Banking Group, Climate Advisers, Schroders, Global Canopy, World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Ceres, Inc.

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🌍📈 Global Cotton Report: Paving the Way for Circular Textile Systems 📈🌍 In 2021, Accelerating Circularity, Inc. set out to address a critical challenge in the textile industry: how to transition from a linear to a circular system. They launched two groundbreaking system trials for cotton-based textile recycling, one in the United States and the other in Europe. TexCycle was among the 43 companies that participated in this ambitious project, covering every aspect of the textile supply chain—from collection and sorting to recycling (both mechanical and chemical), fiber blending, yarn spinning, knitting, weaving, manufacturing, and retail. These trials aimed to bridge gaps in circular textile research by bringing together diverse stakeholders to develop the necessary processes, relationships, and business models. Our collective efforts were guided by ambitious goals: achieving 20% postconsumer recycled content and 40% overall recycled content. Through this collaboration, we identified target materials and made significant strides in advancing circularity. The recent deliverable from this project is the Global Cotton Report, which highlights the achievements and sets a path forward for a more sustainable textile industry. In the report, you can find real bottlenecks and solutions to problems we encountered during trials. You can also participate in a webinar for the report on 6th of June (https://lnkd.in/eHVxgNBS) #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #TextileRecycling #GlobalCottonReport #AcceleratingCircularity #Texcycle #SustainableFashion #GreenFuture https://lnkd.in/eHyf_DMK

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