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explains a new 35-page report from company Textiles Intelligence. This traceability ensures transparency and being able to record a products journey along the supply chain. This can then ensure environmental sustainability of the products along the journey. “This is required in particular in France under the new French regulation Anti-Gaspillage et pour l’Economie Circulaire (AGEC), or Anti- Waste for a Circular Economy Law,” according to the report. “In the USA, apparel brands and retailers must ensure that “goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part with forced labour … are not imported into the United States.
“In practice, organisations seeking to continue the importation of goods into the US must provide ‘clear and convincing evidence’ that the goods were not manufactured with forced labour. Traceability technologies can help companies to meet these obligations, which are set out in the
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).
“Looking ahead, the market for traceability technologies is set for exponential growth in the coming years. This is partly a result of new and forthcoming legislation which demands that textile and clothing organisations eliminate the use of malpractices along their supply chains and provide more transparency.” Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability intitiavie, have also got in on the act in terms of traceability. This year the company launches its own traceability solution, capable of providing supply chain visibility for industry stakeholders. With this, cotton will be fed through new Chain of Custody models that monitor the flow of product throughout the value chain. By logging transactions between stakeholders, fashion retailers and brands that purchase Better Cotton through its traceability solution will have oversight of their cotton’s country of origin, in addition to the
proportion of Better Cotton in their products.
Traceability will connect farmers to the supply chain and form the foundation for an Impact Marketplace Better Cotton is developing, through which farmers would be rewarded for their transition to more sustainable farming.
Reuse not recycle
As well as full transparency driving environmental issues, Reconomy Group company Valpak has published analysis stating how reuse is often ignored in terms of the recycling and sustainability process.
A 2022 report by McKinsey estimates that currently less than 1% of textile waste is fibre-to-fibre recycled. While technologies are developing rapidly, issues around collection, sorting, and pre-processing capacity currently limit the potential for fibre-to-fibre. According to the report, the overriding view from stakeholders was that textile
Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, have also got in on the act in terms of traceability
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