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The European Parliament has officially passed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation that fundamentally shifts the responsibility for textile waste management to fashion brands and retailers – with far-reaching global implications. This new law requires all producers, including e-commerce platforms, to cover the full cost of collecting, sorting, and recycling textiles, regardless of whether they are based within or outside the EU. The financial burden of Europe's textile waste now falls squarely on the brands that create it. What are the critical business implications? UNIVERSAL SCOPE: The legislation applies to all producers selling in the EU market, including those of clothing, accessories, footwear, home textiles, and curtains. No company is exempt based on location. FAST FASHION PENALTY: Member states must specifically address ultra-fast and fast fashion practices when determining EPR financial contributions, creating cost penalties for unsustainable business models. GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION: As the world's largest textile importer, the EU's new rules will ripple across global supply chains, particularly impacting exporters from Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, and India who supply much of Europe's fast fashion. TIMELINE PRESSURE: Officially adopted September 2025, this creates immediate operational and financial planning requirements. COMPETITIVE RESHAPING: Brands and retailers will inevitably pass increased costs down their supply chains, fundamentally altering supplier relationships and pricing structures globally. What are the implications for various stakeholders? For CEOs and board members: This represents more than regulatory compliance – it's a complete business model transformation. Companies must now integrate end-of-life costs into product pricing, rethink supplier partnerships, and accelerate circular design strategies. For sustainability and decarbonisation executives: This creates unprecedented opportunities for circular economy solutions, sustainable material innovation, and traceability system development across global supply chains. Link: https://lnkd.in/dTyHtHuD #sustainablefashion #circulareconomy #textilwaste #epr #fashionindustry #sustainability #supplychainmanagement #fastfashion #environmentalregulation #businessstrategy #decarbonisation #textilerecycling #fashionceos #boardgovernance #climateaction #wastemanagement #producerresponsibility #fashionsustainability #textileindustry #greenbusiness

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What are the top stories in sustainable fashion this week? ⬇️ 1) US textile-to-textile pioneer Circ®. have partnered with Spanish next-gen textiles R&D company PYRATEX® to integrate Circ recycled fibres into their lines. This also expands Circ's presence in Europe and strengthens the networks to scale circularity and material volumes across the supply chain. 2) ASOS.com have partnered with TrusTrace to optimise supply chain transparency, including visibility right through to Tier 5 farm level, streamlining risk and complying with regulations. 3) Italian luxury sportswear brand C.P. Company have their second collaboration with 'Sashiko Gals' (a group of women from a small coastal town in Japan scarred by the 2011 earthquake) - to bring new life and one off pieces to their archive, through intricate stitching techniques. 4) Oxfam launches its seventh campaign of 'Second Hand September', urging people to choose pre-loved over second hand. New research shows that the fashion industry is on track to produce 138 billion items of unworn clothes every year by 2050. 5) Fresh from their launch with Marks and Spencer, Reskinned welcome Dryrobe Ltd to their brand portfolio as the latest circular partnership. 6) British brand Albaray launch their resale offer - powered by Tern Circular, joining Mint Velvet and Baukjen & Isabella Oliver (House of Baukjen) with their resale proposition. 7) Ralph Lauren are buying back their own clothes! Taking resale into their own hands, RL are buying back archive pieces from online marketplaces, authenticating, curating them and reselling at 5x typical going rate. 8) Danish brand GANNI have joined The Fashion Pact - which unites over 160 brands, representing one third of the global fashion industry in its shared pledge across climate, biodiversity and ocean protection. 9) The French Eco-Score will officially enter into force on October 1st 2025 and is mandatory for all apparel and textile products sold in France. Data platform Carbonfact have launched a free tool for fashion brands allowing them to measure their 'French Environmental Cost' and see how your products compare to real industry data. 10) Feeling 🤯 ? Last week I launched 'enkel Insights'. Save a ton of time and stay ahead of the latest news and insights with our monthly curated report - everything all in one place. Your teams with thank you. 🔗 Links to articles in comments --- I'm Lydia, ex global fashion buyer, now guiding the fashion industry towards a more sustainable future. Each week I share the most important news shaping the future of fashion. From materials and innovation, to circularity and policy, each weeks news aims to inspire action and drive the positive change the industry so desperately needs. + Follow for more! #sustainablefashion #enkel #circularfashion Image: CP Clothing latest collaboration with Sashiko Gals

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Circularity Index ≠ One-Size-Fits-All for Apparel As fashion pushes toward a circular economy, many brands ask: “How do we measure circularity?” The answer: there isn’t just one metric. Different tools capture different pieces of the loop. 👕 Ellen MacArthur – Circulytics™ Organisation-wide “readiness & outcomes” score (A–E). Ideal for assessing how well your business model keeps textiles and trims in circulation. 🧵 Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) A 0–1 product-level score for recycled content, recyclability, and lifetime—perfect for a single garment, from denim to outerwear. ✨ Cradle to Cradle Certified® (C2C) Independent product certification covering material health, renewable energy, water stewardship, and social fairness—strong proof for a specific collection. 👗 Circular Fashion Index (CFI) Built for fashion brands. Benchmarks resale, rental, repair, and recycled fibres to compare progress across the industry. 🌍 Circle Economy / Circle Scan System-level mapping of material flows across cities or supply chains—valuable for multi-brand collaborations and regional sourcing hubs. Making the best of these methodologies: • Scope matters: Circulytics evaluates the organisation, MCI & C2C assess the product, CFI scores the brand. • Metric type varies: letter grades, 0–1 scores, or certification tiers—choose based on whether you’re informing investors, buyers, or internal teams. • Best practice: combine them.  → Use MCI to guide garment design.  → Pursue C2C for third-party product validation.  → Report through Circulytics or CFI to show brand-wide progress. Circular fashion is multi-dimensional. Measuring it from every angle—design, supply chain, and business model—is how we close the loop. #CircularFashion #SustainableApparel #Textiles #CircularEconomy #ESG #Innovation #Denim #FashionIndustry

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Last month, Spain published a draft Royal Decree that will introduce Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for textile and footwear products. Their goal? Improve textile waste management nationwide and align Spain’s approach with EU-wide sustainability targets. Once finalized, the new rules will require producers to join or form a collective compliance scheme (SCRAP) to manage their products' environmental impacts from production to end-of-life. 📅 The dates we know so far: - Public consultation closes September 4, 2025 - The law takes effect one day after publication in the Official State Gazette - Producers must register within three months Is your business ready? 👉 Stay tuned for more updates and check out the full article on our blog: https://lnkd.in/ghfUP2_J #News #Legal #EPR #Spain #Textiles

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Reducing audit fatigue through collaboration and data convergence Audit fatigue remains a significant challenge in the garment and footwear sector, with overlapping assessments placing pressure on factories while often failing to capture the full scope of human rights risks. In 2024, we formalised our collaboration to address this issue. By combining the Social & Labor Convergence Program’s frameworks, integrating SLCP data into our HRDD Hub, and encouraged wider industry use of existing data to support responsible decision making. The data integration is now live and available for member brands to use. For brands, this now means: -Continue scaling the use of SLCP aggregate data across Fair Wear’s HRDD Hub country profiles. -Continue encouraging brands to prevent duplication and address audit fatigue. -Build on shared efforts to advance impactful HRDD implementation throughout the sector. This collaboration represents a step towards moving beyond compliance and using data to drive real improvements in supply chain working conditions. To read more, you can read the guest blog by our executive director, Annabel Meurs on SLCP's website: https://lnkd.in/eDvpTv8C

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𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗣𝗥 - marking a structural change in how circularity is regulated in the country. This is a long-anticipated move that brings fashion and textile waste under formal national regulation and is a legally binding shift that will reshape producer obligations, costs, and compliance strategy. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁? 🟢 Clear definitions of who is considered a ‘producer’ 🟢 Full scope of covered product categories 🟢 Mandatory reporting and data submission requirements 🟢 Framework for Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs), who will coordinate collection and recycling 🟢 Targets and mechanisms that tie into EU waste directives and Spain’s national waste law (7/2022) 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴? 🟢 New legal obligations will apply to every producer selling textiles in Spain, including online sellers, importers and retailers. 🟢 Spain is moving to align textile EPR with its broader EPR packaging rules, creating a more unified waste management system. 🟢 Brands will be required to finance the collection, sorting, and treatment of used textiles, either individually or through a PRO. 🟢 Regulatory enforcement is tightening across the EU—and textile EPR is set to follow the same trajectory as packaging, batteries and electronics. As a part of Reconomy, we’re already taking action because Spain is just one part of a bigger, evolving global picture. Navigating compliance challenges is key to enabling a truly circular economy, and we’re here to help our partners stay ahead. We’re supporting regional and global clients to understand, engage, and lead on this draft regulation. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲? ✅ Delivering tailored legal and operational briefings on what this means for your specific business model ✅ Preparing expert-led responses to the public consultation, informed by on-the-ground knowledge and EU alignment trends ✅ Advising on roadmaps for compliance, risk mitigation, data readiness, and how to optimise reporting within your value chain ✅ Integrating Spain’s textile EPR into broader EPR strategies—so brands can build scalable systems that work across jurisdictions With EPR legislation expanding across Europe - from France’s textiles regime to the Netherlands’ upcoming frameworks - many brands are overwhelmed by complexity. That’s where we come in. Through our family of brands, Reconomy helps to simplify EPR strategy and compliance, while helping you to drive real sustainability and strategic resilience in your operations. The consultation closes 4 September. So if textiles are part of your portfolio and Spain is on your market list, now’s the moment to: ✅ Assess your risk ✅ Shape the policy ✅ Future-proof your systems ➤ Tag and share this with the people you know who need this on their radar. 🔴💻https://okt.to/AIFs90 #TextileEPR #ExtendedProducerResponsibility

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📢 We have issued a joint press release with our partners from the European textile value chain European Branded Clothing Association, EURATEX - European Apparel and Textile Confederation, EuroCommerce, Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, and Policy Hub welcoming the European Parliament’s final vote on the revised Waste Framework Directive (WFD). This is a decisive step towards establishing harmonised Extended Producer Responsibility (#EPR) for textiles across the EU. As a united textile ecosystem, we call on the European Commission to ensure harmonised rules across Member States. A level playing field is crucial to prevent fragmentation of the Single Market and to accelerate textile circularity. We now look forward to the swift implementation of EPR schemes across Europe, providing the legal certainty and financial support needed to: ♻️ Scale up textile waste management ♻️ Keep materials in the loop across Europe ♻️ Strengthen efforts on waste prevention 👉 Read the full press release now!

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A new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) titled "Spinning Textile Waste into Value" concludes that …"the right pieces in place for a large-scale #circular textile economy, we believe the industry could see waste recycling rates surpass 30%, generating new fibers with a raw material value worth more than $50 billion and creating approximately 180,000 new jobs." The report also applauds “major global brands, including adidas, New Balance, and PUMA Group, are beginning to invest in textile-to-textile recycling initiatives. These companies are proactively future-proofing operations, achieving sustainability goals, and ensuring access to emerging next-generation raw materials." This report mirrors others from McKinsey & Company and other consultants to the industry. And yet, while I am sure that its analytics are spot on….it’s forecast for possibility is akin to fiction. Why? 👚 As the report notes, the math does not add up. Brands will continue to default to virgin fabrics as long as recycled fabrics are far more costly. The report notes that recycled polyester can be 2X virgin. Until that shifts, the industry won’t budge. 🏭 The report does not specify the trillions of dollars in CAPX that will be needed to make the transition. 👕 The report says that "Industry players must boost demand for recycled fibers, streamline textile waste collection, upgrade sorting infrastructure, expand proven recycling methods, and invest in cutting-edge recycling technologies.” Why "must" they? Incumbents like the current linear system. Until the rules change…e.g. compel brands to use minimum % of recycled content + pay for the real costs of EPR and infrastructure….it is not clear to me that the promises of what might be are productive. Lutz Walter Samantha Taylor Neeraj Narayan Patrik Frisk Donatela Bellone Sydney Badger Brittany Sierra Zofia Zwieglinska Jasmin Malik Chua Devon Rufo Brooke Roberts-Islam Eric Liedtke Katy O'Brien Global Fashion Agenda Shivam Gusain Veronica Bates Kassatly Oliver Scutt Priyanka Khanna Rachel Arthur Zofia Zwieglinska Alissa Baier-Lentz

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