Every month, FashionUnited selects a number of sustainability efforts from the fashion industry, both at home and abroad. Today, five efforts from November 2024 are mentioned.
‘World of Waste’: Fashion for Good maps textile waste
This month, Fashion for Good launched a free map and tool to map the textile waste mountain: ‘World of Waste’. The map and tool provide information about the numbers, composition and type of textile waste and aims to enable recyclers and innovators to efficiently identify and reuse textile waste. ‘World of Waste’ was created in collaboration with Reverse Resources, Global Fashion Agenda, Circle Economy and Accelerating Circularity. Fashion for Good received funding from Laudes Foundation and IDH to create the tool.
Zeeman further distributes second-hand offers in Belgium and the Netherlands
Zeeman’s second-hand offering was further rolled out to eight new locations in Belgium and the Netherlands in November. This brings the counter to seventeen Zeeman branches that now offer ‘Re-sue’. The Dutch textile discounter introduced the sale of second-hand clothing in 2021 and rolled out in collaboration with Het Goed, a social enterprise with various thrift stores and textile sorting centers in the Netherlands. The ‘Re-use’ offer also came to Belgium in 2022.
Kiki Hagen takes the chair as director at Collective Circular Textiel
The Circular Textile Collective appointed Kiki Hagen as director in November. Her first goal is to create a chain collaboration that not only meets the upcoming legal EPR requirements, but that actively contributes to a future-proof textile industry with a reduced ecological impact.
No more new leather and down at C&A from July 2025
C&A decided to no longer use leather and new down in its supply chain from July 2025. The fashion chain previously eliminated the use of fur, angora and mohair. C&A is thus committed to further making its supply chain more sustainable. The fashion chain also announced that all bags are now vegan and that some products carry the “Peta-Approved Vegan” logo.
European Council adopts law banning products made under forced labor
It is the last green light that still had to be given: The European Council adopts the law banning products made under forced labor. Thanks to this law, the offering and export of such products is restricted within the EU. It will take some time before the law is enforced, because the law will only come into effect three years after the law comes into effect.
