Most apparel professionals today were trained to design and produce garments with the aesthetics and end-price point rather than the end-user or end-of-life of the garment in mind. To transition to circular design, apparel professionals need to expand their horizons and to understand the use and end-of-use phases of a garment’s lifecycle. (Re)education is one promising avenue - and there is a lot to learn. So how can we best equip them to transform the industry from the inside out? While the infrastructure to support such a system still needs investment, considering the technologies, solution providers and innovations already available - from automated sorting technologies that enable textile-to-textile recycling such as the Fibersort to third-party providers such as The Renewal Workshop or ThredUP - there is a trove of opportunities for the industry to get started with.īut the textiles system, like all other human-made systems, is made of and heavily relies on people - people who have been trained differently, who find it difficult to navigate the sea of options available to them and who might lack the skills and knowledge they need to even act on these opportunities.
For many others, however, the question of how to go from here - our current linear system - to there - a circular, zero waste textiles system - is still largely unanswered. For some, setting these goals was just the step they needed to kick-start their transition. In 2017, the Global Fashion Agenda provided important pointers as to where the industry should go with the 2020 Circular Fashion System Commitment.
For most apparel brands and retailers, "where do we start?" is an important question on their way to circularity.
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