Tag: clothes

• ECOS FACTSHEET – Microplastic pollution: The new runway trend for season 2023-2050

  Fast fashion is leading the microplastic pollution trend. After World Environment Day, ECOS highlights that synthetic textiles are one of the major sources of microplastic pollution – they have dominated the fibre market in fashion since the mid-1990s.

• REPORT Deep dive: Standards to measure textile durability

  In March 2022, the Commission unveiled the EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. This is a technical paper produced by ECOS investigating and analising which standards and methodologies are used for assessing textile durability.

• Durable, Repairable and Mainstream – Let’s slow down and make our textiles circular

  The environmental impacts of the textile sector are growing by the minute. Unless we slow down, our planet will become the ultimate fashion victim. On 30 March, the European Union is releasing a dedicated EU Strategy on Textiles, meant to allow a shift to a climate-neutral circular economy. This will require an integrated, multi-faceted approach: while policymakers make sustainable products the norm in the EU, the industry will need to shift its business models to operate within planetary boundaries.

• Letter to Members of the European Parliament: need for a tangible vision to change the textile sector

  ECOS together with other 11 organisations, call for setting an ambitious vision for a sustainable and circular EU textile sector which delivers on the EU’s zero pollution objectives and the bloc’s 2050 climate-neutrality target.