WORLD LEADERS,
ACT NOW
Design
Planet: Legislation to ensure products are designed to embed solutions and resourcefulness for waste elimination and end of life.
People: Investment from governments and universities in the global education of sustainable fashion design with a focus on circularity and waste solutions.
Raw Materials
Planet: Legislation to move towards a degrowth model for virgin raw materials and eliminate fossil fuel fashion, investment in circular recycled solutions, and regulation on toxicity in clothing implemented and upheld across the world.
People: Expedite modern slavery legislation and regulation, and investment to support farmers regarding water conservation and regenerative agriculture.
Fabric Production
Planet: Legislation to address the chemically intensive and harmful nature of textile production, and regulation to eliminate fabrics with a blended fibre composition that are problematic to recycle.
People: Expedite modern slavery legislation and regulation, and investment in holistic closed-looped systems and skilled workers that embed resourcefulness for waste elimination.
Garment Production
Planet: Regulation to support degrowth models and reduce inventory of new clothing, and incentivise onshoring and sustainable production across the world through tax breaks and funding support.
People: Expedite modern slavery legislation and regulation, and legislation to introduce a garment trade adjudicator to eliminate poor working conditions across the world.
Distribution
Planet: Legislation across the world to responsibly manage textiles abandoned at customs, regulation and accountability for the decarbonisation of transportation, investment in biofuels infrastructure, and the elimination of airfreight.
People: Investment in a zero carbon economy to protect the health of humans across the world.
Retail
Planet: Legislation of Extended Producer Responsibility to address the waste within the textile value chain, and support for on-demand models for the reduction of inventory and ultimately waste. Investment to support local and national sustainable business solutions.
People: Legislation to embed traceability and transparency with the implementation of QR eco-labelling showing legacy of the entire supply chain and impact of the products.
Use
Planet: Investment in holistic education on the impact of our actions and clothing decisions, including practical skills development in schools.
People: We call on YOU as a consumer to repair what you wear; value secondhand; rent or share garments; buy less, buy better; ask who made your clothes and how much they were paid; only support brands who are ethical and transparent; and responsibly recycle your clothing.
End of Life
Planet: Legislation of Extended Producer Responsibility to address the end of life waste, and investment and support in closed-loop systems and national infrastructures to simplify textile recycling for the consumer.
People: Regulation to stop governments and brands passing on the responsibility and damaging impacts of their own textile waste to ‘receiving’ communities in the Global South, and investment in these communities to implement waste processing solutions.
If you have any questions or feedback on these Call to Actions, or would like to get involved in their development, please get in touch.