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The textile companies creating material change

GreenBiz

The textile companies creating material change. While the lasting impacts of COVID on industry may take years to accurately assess, one thing we can see right now is how the pandemic has focused the textile industry’s attention on sustainability. Liesl Truscott. Wed, 05/26/2021 - 09:01.

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Outdoor gear company Arc'teryx flies toward a circular economy

GreenBiz

Outdoor gear company Arc'teryx flies toward a circular economy. In the front yard of the Coast Mountains in North Vancouver, Canada, Arc’teryx, an outdoor clothing and climbing gear company, is building a circular economy. From there, the company cleans and repairs the used gear before reselling it online at lower prices.

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New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion

GreenBiz

5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity. All interested companies are eligible, and it is free to participate. All interested companies are eligible, and it is free to participate.

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The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems

GreenBiz

Winner of the 2018 Global Change Award , the company aims to unlock value for the textile and fashion industry, for farmers and for the planet. Isaac Nichelson: Agraloop is the world's first regenerative industrial system for textile production. Nicole Pamani: Tell us the Agraloop story. But that can all be fixed.

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VF Corp leans in to the circular economy and regenerative ag

GreenBiz

The company had approximately 48,000 employees at the end of its 2020 fiscal year, which ended on March 28, according to its most recent annual report , and revenue during that year was $10.5 And so that's really where our focus has been over the past year: developing a vision around sustainable materials.

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A look at the secret world where our waste ends up

Corporate Knights

As they soaked up rain, the textiles trapped gases and chemicals that emanated from all that decomposing trash until, one day, the landfill exploded. Humans have always created waste. But the introduction of consumer plastics in the years following World War II changed everything.

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Circularity in the Era of Overshoot

Chris Hall

Resources include raw materials, products, energy and water are used efficiently and kept in productive, high-value loops for as long as possible, through product and service re-design. According to the foundation , the circular economy is a system where materials never become waste and nature is regenerated.

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