![]() Most progress has been made on recyclability (with 24 of 87 targets achieved), followed by the collection of used clothes or footwear (with 12 out of 52 targets accomplished). Participating brands have until June 2020 to achieve the remainder. ![]() Overall, only 21% of the 213 targets have so far been met. According to a recent update, 15 of the signatories have failed to meet even the most minimum requirements of the commitment. Giving direction to their efforts is the Global Fashion Agenda, which is supported by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Fashion Positive. Hence the 2017 commitment by 90 fashion brands and retailers (representing 12.5% of the global fashion market) to advance the cause of circularity back in 2017. Part of the answer, it is suggested, lies in introducing more circular modes of production. The industry isn’t ignorant of its need to resolve the problem it has with carbon emissions and high resource use. ![]() The apparel and footwear industries together account for more than 8.1% of global climate impacts, the equivalent of 3,990 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, estimates suggest. Today, however, worrying about what we wear feels all too prescient. the body more than clothes?” This famous injunction of Jesus was meant as a corrective against worldly worries when it was first issued two millennia ago. In part two of his monthly round up of sustainability news, Oliver Balch reports on how progress on circularity by the likes of Burberry, Zara, and C&A is not widely replicated ![]()
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