The European Union has taken a new step in its strategy to reduce the environmental impact of the textile industry. Since this Sunday, July 19, large companies are prohibited from destroying clothing, accessories, and footwear that they have not managed to sell, a measure with which Brussels aims to reduce...
To be more efficient, effective, and competitive. And that, within the textile sector, and in a context like the current one, marked by growing pressure to meet sustainability objectives, has a formula: reuse better. That is the great textile challenge and it is not futile, since its achievement draws on...
The clothing labels are not always read. And what is even worse: many times they are not understood. Although their function is to offer basic information to better care for clothes and know their materials, different studies and European regulations show that a good part of consumers find it difficult...
For many, Spain could become the great European hub for textile recycling. José Monzonís, general director of the Textile and Fashion Observatory, does not deny it, although he makes it clear that there is still a long way to go: “Our country still has to make an immense effort in...
The Digital Product Passport (DPP, for its acronym in English) is emerging as one of the key tools to boost sustainability, improve transparency and advance towards a circular economy in the European Union. Initially regulated by the Regulation 2024/1781 (EU) establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for...
The textile nearshoring has consolidated in recent years as one of the most relevant strategies to redesign the supply chains of the fashion and apparel industry. Compared to traditional outsourcing models to distant countries, more and more companies are choosing to bring their production closer to geographically proximate markets to...