News BIR's first Textiles Circularity Conference calls for enhanced international collaboration as sector reaches 'turning point' Second-hand clothes have 70 times lower environmental impact 19/1/23. A life-cycle assessment has confirmed the significant carbon dioxide and water savings from reusing textiles, compared with producing new clothing... EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles published 30/03/22. The European Commission has published a new package of proposals to make sustainable products the norm in the EU. The Sustainable and Circular... New textiles sector sustainability agreement launches 26/04/21. The Salvation Army Trading Company Limited (SATCoL) has signed up as a signatory to the UK’s textile sector voluntary agreement. Textiles 2030... New Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) plans revealed for clothing and textiles 18/12/20. New EPR legislation for clothing and textiles is scheduled to come into force in Sweden on 1st January 2022. This will be phased in... Eon Partner Network and Circular ID protocol for circular clothing and textiles 17/12/20. Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL) became a Founding Partner of Eon’s Partner Network. SATCoL is seeking to work with like-minded... TEXTILES 2030 The Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP) has announced a new UK voluntary industry sector agreement for sustainable textiles. ‘Textiles 2030&rsquo... DENIM DEAL A group of signatories, including the Dutch Secretary of State for Circular Economy and Environment, has commited to an international collaboration which... World Circular Textiles Day! 8th October 2020. The Salvation Army celebrated the inaugural World Circular Textiles Day, which marked the beginning of a new collaborative and creative... Clothing Labels: Accurate or not? In 2018, ReShare (ENoR member) raised doubts on the accuracy of composition claims on clothing labels on the Dutch market. With the introduction of the... Textile Collection Analysis - ReShare Case Study Under ECAP, Leger des Heils ReShare ran a trial to collect more textiles by adding more clothing banks in Utrecht. It shows new evidence for the benefits... Policy recommendations towards a 0-waste textiles industry How to come to a zero waste textiles industry? The Fibersort Consortium published a Policy Recommendations report showing the instruments that regional... ISWA Roundtable for Ethical Textile Recycling ISWA is the worlds leading network promoting professional and sustainable waste- resourse management. Their mission is to promote sustainable waste management... Closing the Loop The UN Inter Agency Task force on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) published an article on the role of SSE-organisations in the circular economy and... 22-23 May ENoR Conference From 22-23 May the ENoR Conference took place in Helsingør, denmark. 19 delegates of the ENoR organisations participated in discussions on market... Salvation Army (NL) sees a dark future for textile collection More and more textiles are procured and discarded, the quality of textiles is decreasing and the quality of recycling stays behind. This combination gives... SATCoL opens two new Donation Centres Salvation Army Trading Company have opened their fourth and fifth Donation Centres in Banbury and Exeter respectively. As part of an their ongoing aim... ReShare builds new textile sorting center Salvation army ReShare, will build a new national textile sorting center at A1 Businesspark in Deventer (NL). The sorting center will be 5.000 m2 and will... Show more
