The British Manner Council launches inaugural positive fashion project to tackle waste

The British Fashion Council (BFC) has announced its first research study via its Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) called the Waste products Ecosystem Project.

The research aims to find solutions for how the fashion industry can responsibly take care of inventory, reduce, and proceed to circular business operations. The research will look at actions and infrastructures needed in crucial areas and outline a proposal for transformation across the whole value chain, and other key regions of the industry such as Education and Training, Selections and Recycling infrastructure, Textile Recycling Innovations, Upcycling and Consumer Mindset.

The project’s ambition is to fast-track the proceed to a circular fashion industry in the UK and act as a blueprint to talk about with other organisations and countries to check out their efforts in creating a circular fashion industry globally.

11 million components of clothing go into landfill every year

The fashion industry’s environmental impact makes up about 4 percent of most global carbon emissions and the 2019 Pulse report states that the global textiles industry will be in charge of ¼ of the world’s carbon budget by 2050 without radical action. In line with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) approximately 11 million items of outfits go into landfill each year.

In 2020 research undertaken for the BFC by Oxford Economics showed that the COVID crisis saw 73 percent of British fashion brands experiencing cancelled orders from low cost partners and UK clothes sales falling by 34 percent in March alone, resulting in an unprecedented inventory crisis.

Caroline Rush, BFC LEADER commented: “Now, as part of your, there is a need to help the fashion industry accelerate towards an environment of circularity therefore of the inventory waste materials crisis. Post the pandemic, we have a massive possibility to reset the style industry rather than time for business as standard and the Waste Ecosystem Project will play a key portion in this. We will be delighted to work with Vanish upon this project and together to activate both consumers and sector in playing their part popular circularity.”

The IPF helps the Uk Fashion Industry lead in the goal to be more resilient and circular through global collaboration and native action. Leveraging global know-how and methods, the IPF adopts standards, develops and establishes frameworks to reset and create a new blueprint for the sector. Through identifying common issues, the IPF demands collective action and expense in innovation to generate a difference. The IPF aims to take the sector in tune with the needs of the planet by firmly taking a holistic methodology across environment, people, community & craftsmanship.