Today’s fashion industry is linear. It should be circular. Our vision of a circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. — in which products are used more, made to be made again, and made from safe and recycled or renewable inputs — is an opportunity for the fashion industry to build economic resilience.
Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truckload of clothes is burnt or buried in landfill. This approach is not only environmentally unstable, it’s economically fragile. Every discarded garment represents financial value lost to both producer and customer.
For an industry brimming with creativity and innovation, the circular economy offers a better alternative for the future of fashion and textiles. Our Fashion and Textiles mission is focussed on tackling the barriers to circular economy implementation at scale. Through our work to date we have identified systemic barriers that cannot be overcome through individual action. Our work prioritises finding solutions that:
Products must be designed to last longer, be repaired, and be remade. Business models must keep products in use through resale, rental, repairrepairOperation by which a faulty or broken product or component is returned back to a usable state to fulfil its intended use., and remaking services. And infrastructure must enable collection, sorting, and material recovery at scale.
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The same creativity that defines the industry is what will transform it. Join us to help solve systemic barriers and transform the fashion industry from a linear system of overproduction and waste into a circular system of value and resilience.
