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Looking forward to being a part of a panel of experts discussing New York’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for textiles. If you're in New York City, I encourage you to join the conversation and explore sustainability in the textile industry. Hope to see you there! #Sustainability #EPR #TextileIndustry #CircularEconomy

Elevate Textiles, a global provider of advanced, high-quality products and mission critical textile solutions, is pleased to release its 2024 Sustainability Report. Elevate and its distinguished brands, American & Efird (A&E), Burlington, Cone Denim, Gütermann, and Safety Components, share updates and progress on sustainability commitments and collaborations related to the company’s 2025 and newly announced 2030 goals. Within the report, Elevate outlines recent actions guided by its Ten Threads of Sustainability, an internal program that shapes the company’s sustainable decision-making to best support the achievement of its 2025 and 2030 goals and increase transparency and traceability across its programs. The report shares Elevate’s participation and leadership in industry collaborations and alignment with the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles, specifically highlighting the company’s actions that directly support UN Sustainable Development Goal commitments. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gK2btFsd Subscribe to The Pulse for more industry news updates at https://lnkd.in/gfywU7H Each week we publish The Pulse, a free email newsletter with news, research, and information of interest to anyone in the uniform, image apparel, and public safety equipment industry. #NAUMD #NAUMDThePulse

Elevate Textiles, a global provider of advanced, high-quality products and mission critical textile solutions, is pleased to release its 2024 Sustainability Report. Elevate and its distinguished brands, American & Efird (A&E), Burlington, Cone Denim, Gütermann, and Safety Components, share updates and progress on sustainability commitments and collaborations related to the company’s 2025 and newly announced 2030 goals. Within the report, Elevate outlines recent actions guided by its Ten Threads of Sustainability, an internal program that shapes the company’s sustainable decision-making to best support the achievement of its 2025 and 2030 goals and increase transparency and traceability across its programs. The report shares Elevate’s participation and leadership in industry collaborations and alignment with the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles, specifically highlighting the company’s actions that directly support UN Sustainable Development Goal commitments. Read more at https://lnkd.in/g82n2h65 Subscribe to The Pulse for more industry news updates at https://lnkd.in/gzcR4dr Each week we publish The Pulse, a free email newsletter with news, research, and information of interest to anyone in the uniform, image apparel, and public safety equipment industry. #NAUMD #NAUMDThePulse

XTM Performance, an Australian snow apparel company, has recently obtained B Corporation certification! This underscores its dedication to sustainability, ethical business practices, and environmental stewardship. Delve deeper into their path toward B Corp status in this article! ⬇️ #BCorp #Sustainability #XTMPerformance

STRENGTHENING THE COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Marc O'Polo is taking a significant step to further expand on its environmental sustainability strategy and minimise its environmental impact with regard to the use of harmful chemicals. We are strengthening our commitment to the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme, a multi-stakeholder initiative with over 320 signatory companies from the textile, apparel and footwear industries. Marc O'Polo is now a ZDHC Signatory Brand. This is an important addition to the brand’s existing membership in Cascale, a global alliance committed to more equitable and restorative business practices. Since the very beginning, the use of natural materials has been an integral part of Marc O'Polo's brand essence, laying the foundation for today's environmentally conscious behaviour. #marcopolo #sustainability #environment

I am very much looking forward to seeing this new Seamless programme take off as it is a model for the future of sustainability whereby the government is imposing a flat fee to support infrastructure for circularity. I have long contented that philanthropy and voluntary efforts for sustainability are not a fit for purpose solution to achieve real impact at scale—all ships must rise with the tide and therefore the tide must be led by government or by collective action agreeing to shared investment. Most brands would belly-ache about a $0.03 and $0.04 per garment fee, but if all brands have to pay this to sell into the Australian market, the playing field remains the same for all. Australia now has $0.12-$0.16 per kg of fibre to invest in real progress— traceabilty, digital labeling, collection, sorting, processing and renewing through real feedstocks of recycled fibres (not just a paper trail). Will EU, UK, USA and others follow this promising move? We need to stop “green scheming” and in living in a world of magical thinking where “ethics” and consumers drive the change—the conscious consumer does not exist—actually they do, they are consciously shopping on TikTok right now buying $2.00 t-shirts direct from the factory. We need to start making real investments in ourselves and in the future of our industry—what is at stake is not 🌎 (the planet), it’s our jobs, our livelihoods, and our desire as professionals to make the world a better place to live, work and play through fibres textiles and fashion. The world doesn’t need another t-shirt—we do. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

It's very inspiring to see how transformational ideas criss-cross the world, each new manifestation making everyone else stronger, adding new insight, and new voices. Seamless launching in Australia marks a moment when 60 brands commit to begin to invest in a more sustainable version of this industry which could be the innovation opportunity of a generation. Leadership will be critical to ensure optimism translates into scalable innovation and viable business models to present a commercially attractive alternative to the status quo. More value from less stuff.

A significant historical day today for Australia - in us closing the loop on fibre and textile resource flows. The Seamless scheme goes live today. Read more below. #circulareconomy #fibre #renewable #biodegradable.

I was lucky enough to attend and speak at the Sustainable Fashion Forum in Austin last week. I got to share the stage with some amazing leaders in sourcing and supply chain innovation from unspun™, Calico and Better Cotton. Conferences are typically weird. Awkward networking, window-less rooms and sad lighting, and a content line up that typically puts sponsors at the forefront of the agenda. Brittany Sierra has built something special at SFF. Attendees and speakers were willing to share, be vulnerable and have super candid conversations about what is hard and not yet defined under the umbrella of sustainability in fashion. A few takeaways: - #Greenhushing is the new #greenwashing and may be just as bad (worse?) whereby companies are too scared to talk about their efforts and failings in sustainability and therefore just stay mum. - Legislation is key but still very unclear what the path looks like. Europe's DPP (Digital Product Passport) is one of the strongest moves in play right now to increase transparency and circularity in the industry. - Collaboration is key. The word came up 87 times in two days (don't quote me on that but it was a lot). The awesome thing about sustainability professionals is that they are actually encouraged to work cross-functionally and cross-company with other seemingly competitive groups to figure out what's working and sharing lessons learned. - We need government subsidies to encourage green manufacturing in the US and beyond. Lessons from Tesla and the subsidies available to electric car manufacturing and purchasing should be brought over to fashion. Beth Esponnette Ellen Saville Rachel Van Metre Kibbe Beni James Rogers Circ® DEBRAND Amelia Eleiter Lo & Sons Nicks Ericsson Renewcell Michelle Gabriel Chelsey Evans Deanna Cook Raz Godelnik

Today’s episode of M.A.D.E., Made in Italy, Made Perfectly, explores Candiani SpA, which has been pioneering the denim industry since 1938. What sets Candiani apart is its commitment to preserving its roots while embarking on a remarkable journey of responsible innovation, as the only company in the world which continues to craft its denim in the very same region and country where the fabric was born, more than 500 years ago. Successfully vertically integrating the practices of spinning, dyeing, weaving and finishing fabrics, Candiani’s success rests upon its three pillars: Made in Italy, sustainability and innovation, achieved by continuing to develop and discover state-of-the-art solutions to minimizing the environmental impact of their products and production while driving these changes industry-wide. According to the words of Alberto Candiani, President of Candiani Denim “Creativity marries innovation, and innovation can only be sustainable.” #MadeInItalyMadePerfectly #MADEinItaly #OTBGroup