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We know it's a challenge navigating today’s sustainability-driven marketplace. Discover how Asket and Pilot, two pioneering companies, have successfully woven sustainability into their core strategies as consumer demand for sustainability surges and regulations tighten. Click here 👉 https://bit.ly/3YDjdfA #PIM #PXM #Sustainability #Ecofriendly #Customerexperience

New Laws, New Standards: Is Greenwashing Finally Over? As the 2025 EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) approaches, businesses must ask: How prepared are we for these changes, and what adjustments are being made in our manufacturing processes? The ESPR mandates brands to embed sustainability into their products, requiring Digital Product Passports that detail environmental impact, recyclability, and sourcing. With regulations banning the destruction of unsold apparel and aiming to cut waste, will this be the moment when green washers are exposed and truly sustainable companies emerge? Consider the Adidas-Parley partnership. Adidas claimed "50% recycled materials" in their footwear, but it was later revealed that much of the plastic wasn’t from Parley’s ocean collection, and the recycled material percentage applied only to certain parts, not the whole. How can we ensure that genuinely sustainable brands, like Ocean Integrity, gain the recognition and trust they deserve while those using misleading claims face consequences? Ocean Integrity sets a new standard in environmental responsibility. They’ve collected over 1.5 billion kilograms of plastic waste in 45 countries, focusing on empowering local communities. Their blockchain technology ensures full transparency and traceability from collection by local fishermen to final recycling. The Ocean Integrity Collectors App allows global tracking and uploading of plastic waste collected, preventing greenwashing or double counting. Beyond waste collection, they’ve developed technology to convert textile waste into polyester pellets, tested successfully in the UK. In an interview with myself, Founder Captain Kieran Kelly highlights the unethical practices in Indonesia, where single mothers in poverty face environmental racism and harsh working conditions for brands that claim sustainability but fall short. In contrast, Ocean Integrity pays local fishermen a fair wage, ensuring social and environmental justice. They focus on SEG (Social Environmental Governance), uplifting indigenous women who make handcrafted bracelets linked to plastic waste collection through blockchain, earning three times the local minimum wage. Will these new laws push your business to adopt sustainable fabrics? If you already use them, is it time to re-evaluate your supply chain? Are your suppliers transparent, or do you need to question their practices? With these regulations, 2025 could be a turning point where genuine efforts rise, and greenwashing is held accountable. How can companies like Ocean Integrity, driving real change, break into the fashion market and earn trust from brands and manufacturers? N

"🌍 Why do small and large brands need different sustainability laws? Discover how one-size-fits-all policies can impact sustainable progress and why SMEs deserve tailored regulations to truly thrive. Dive into the discussion on sustainability, resilience, and the future of fashion for all business sizes. Link in bio. #SustainableFashion #AnthoraCollection #SMEs #FashionLaw #SustainabilityMatters #FutureOfFashion" https://lnkd.in/g666yci2

We know it's a challenge navigating today’s sustainability-driven marketplace. Discover how ASKET and The Pilot Pen Company (UK) Ltd, two pioneering companies, have successfully woven sustainability into their core strategies as consumer demand for sustainability surges and regulations tighten. Click here 👉 https://bit.ly/3YDjdfA #PIM #PXM #Sustainability #Ecofriendly #Customerexperience

👇 THIS is why Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is such a CRITICAL type of sustainability regulation. EPR is a mechanism for getting producers to take responsibility for their products—even after they’ve been sold and used. This approach can drastically reduce waste and hold companies accountable for the environmental impact of their goods. Why is that so important? 👉 Take Accra, where 15 *million* pieces of second-hand clothing arrive every week. Most are unsellable and end up: • Burned for water heating, releasing air pollution 200 times above safe levels. • Dumped on beaches, contributing to plastic pollution in the ocean. In other words, countries like Ghana are paying the price for overconsumption in developed markets. But EPR policies can help to change that. For instance: 🇫🇷 France' Anti-Waste Law requires fashion brands to recycle or donate unsold garments, reducing waste and promoting a circular economy. 🇸🇪 Sweden’s EPR for textiles will make producers responsible for collecting and recycling used clothes. 🇪🇺 The EU Circular Economy Action Plan includes textiles in its EPR strategy, ensuring fashion brands are accountable for waste. 🇳🇱 The Netherlands is developing EPR regulations for textiles, requiring fashion brands to manage the recycling of post-consumer textiles. 🇦🇺 Australia’s National Waste Policy is working towards EPR for textiles, pushing brands to handle waste from their products. There’s a lot of sustainability regulation cropping up around the world, and sometimes it can be easy to forget the reasons behind them. Videos like this one are an essential reminder. Thank you Greenpeace for this video, and to Elena Doms for bringing it to my attention. _____ ➕ Follow Abbie Morris for posts about sustainability, policy, and startups. 📧 Drop me a DM if you want to learn more about tackling the mountain of sustainability regulation facing the retail industry.

Circularity, sustainability, have come a long way. What once was an afterthought, soon became an item on the to-do-list for some organizations. Shortly after, it became part of long-term goals for companies in multiple industries. But most people within organizations knew it was just for show. Now, consumers are becoming more and more demanding for better ways of conducting business. From fashion, to tech, and now food and drug organizations and almost every other industry must realize we can't greenwash this anymore. Sustainability is now a mandate. https://lnkd.in/eSATRuYt

How about changing our worldviews on the way we buy and wear clothes? Not only the industry needs to change but we as consumers can change our behaviour as well? How about only buying clothes that you really need and wearing them as long as possible? Would already make a world of difference. If not now, then when?

What is your take on circular economy in the fashion industry.

Such an important conversation! Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a crucial tool in tackling overconsumption and reducing waste, especially in industries like fashion where environmental impact is massive. It’s great to see countries implementing policies that hold producers accountable for the lifecycle of their products. As sustainability regulations evolve, it's equally critical to understand how shifts like these, along with market volatility, impact sectors and investor decisions. For those interested in how these changes, coupled with election uncertainty, are influencing markets, check out this article: https://lnkd.in/gANQg7N6 It provides insights into smart investing during these times.

In simple lay-person's understanding - Concept of recycling to better the environment and "Earth Health"... Specially in Apparel sector became a new story / slogan... Whereby, opened doors to entrepreneurs into a next "Additional" segment of processing in the raw material supply chain industry meaning additional cost (inclusive of profits and commissions) for crude unprocessed base raw material from garbage collection into processing process. Viz-a-Viz Retail customer looking for economical long lasting Aparell and Brands to Supply chain players... NO One willing to contribute towards reduction of huge profits at every stage of the profit. Rest is all academic professional jargon Explanation... Correct me if my to the point scenario explanation is wrong...!!!