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Lululemon Takes Minority Stake in Recycling Tech Company

The athleisure brand has taken a minority stake in Samsara Eco, an Australian company that uses enzymes to recycle plastics like polyester and nylon into new materials.

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Reformation’s IPO Push Bets on Going Green in $200 Eucalyptus Pants

Fast-growing womenswear maker Reformation will be the next big test of whether a brand pitching sustainability can win over a wider audience and deliver on environmental promises.

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Coach Tests ‘Circular’ Coachtopia Sub-Brand

The American accessories giant says the line will serve as lab to develop new design and production models, starting with a capsule that features patchworked products made from manufacturing scraps. How the project will scale remains unclear.

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When Marketing Gets Political

Rothy’s is running a marketing blitz in support of a New York state recycling bill, a sign of fashion’s shifting relationship with politics and advocacy.

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Can a Zero-Carbon Sneaker Make Allbirds Cool Again?

The footwear company says it has cracked its holy-grail goal to develop a net-zero carbon shoe. All investors want is a path to profitability.

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EU’s Used Textile Exports Tripled Over the Last Two Decades

Nearly 1.7 million tonnes of used fabric were exported to other countries — primarily in Asia and Africa — in 2019, but whether they are destined for recycling, re-use or landfill is “highly uncertain,” according to a report published Monday by the European Environment Agency.

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Is Sustainable Fashion Elitist?

Calling out the industry’s environmental footprint and the true cost of making clothes has touched off a complex and heated debate about the accessibility and affordability of lower-impact fashion.

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Should Fashion Pay for Its ‘Waste Colonialism’?

Every year, millions of tons of old clothes are shipped around the world as part of the global secondhand clothing trade. Nonprofit The Or Foundation and Vestiaire Collective are lobbying for regulation that benefits the countries where they end up.

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Beyond ‘Blah Blah Blah’: Fashion’s Sustainability Priorities for 2023

Regulators are taking aim at the industry’s glacial progress on climate and labour rights, creating new incentives and risks for sustainability efforts in the coming year.

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The Best of BoF: Fashion’s Sustainability Reckoning

From innovative materials to regulatory crackdowns, 2022 was a year that pushed the fashion industry to rethink how it operates.

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Vestiaire Collective Bans Fast Fashion

Roughly 5 percent of listings will be hit by the move, the resale site said, as it seeks to position itself as an eco-conscious player at the upper end of an increasingly competitive market.

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UN COP27 Summit Ends With Last-Ditch Deal for Historic Climate Damage Fund

The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which came close to collapse in the closing stretches, ended with an early-hours deal to create a fund to pay poorer countries for the harm caused by climate change.

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