Ensuring collaboration rather than competition, knowing your supply chains and investing in the future will drive sustainability in the fast fashion market, Katharine Stewart, ethical trade and environmental sustainability director at Primark, told Drapers Sustainable Fashion 2020 today. …
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Kit Willow pursues a passion for nature and style through her company’s sustainable artisan-made fashion designs. Kitx is born “from a spirit of kindness, integrity and transparency, [while] the X represents the future.” The clothing utilizes a range of colors, patterns, rectangle-based drips and fits with playful twists of macramé lace and linens, made from flax.
As brand owners seek to enhance their values-led positioning, innovative logistics solutions can play a major role, says James Ash, head of EMEA communications at Manhattan Associates. More informed and demanding than ever, consumers are now imposing iron-clad expectations on brands in the form of environmental and sustainability credentials. With the boom in e-commerce, the transition to a circular economy is becoming even more important. The final delivery of this utopian, sustainable model, however, is largely based on the efficiency and innovation of transport networks.
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The ubiquitous use of plastics has been driven by their combination of low cost and properties, but these attributes directly challenge waste management schemes for plastic recycling. Some postconsumer recycling programs are now nearly 50 years old, but a significant fraction of plastics still finds landfills or other dumping strategies at their end of life. With the growing concern regarding plastic waste, especially ocean plastics, there is a need for innovation and alternative strategies for the economic translation of plastic waste to valued product(s) that will promote their efficient circular utilization. This review first describes the technical and economic hurdles associated with the recycling of postconsumer plastics, but then it focuses on providing an overview of emergent strategies to recover plastic waste through new polymer design, new recycling processes, and chemical transformations to value-added products. Specific challenges discussed include plastic waste sorting and separations, product variability including additives, and the high efficiency/low cost in which the existing petrochemical industry can produce virgin polymers, in particular polyolefins.