EU-Funded Projects
The European Green Deal and the European Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan highlight textiles as one of the particularly important material streams with regard to circularity potential and environmental footprint.
Introduction
The European Commission also recognises the complexity of the textile value chain and that key technologies are challenged to scale successfully and deliver impact without an integrated approach.
Through collaborative projects funded by its key programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe, the European Union stimulates the shift to circularity in textiles. Fashion for Good participates in projects funded by this programme. Explore the work of two multi-stakeholder projects, of which we are a partner.
Related Projects
T-REX Project
The T-REX Project brings together 13 major players from across the entire value chain to create a harmonised EU blueprint and business opportunities for closed loop sorting, and recycling of household textile waste. Transforming end-of-use textiles, from waste, into a desired feedstock, and a commodity for new business models that can be adopted at scale.
New Cotton Project
In a world first for the fashion industry, twelve pioneering players came together to break new ground by demonstrating a circular model for commercial garment production.
Relevant Resources
New Cotton Project Launches Exhibit at the Fashion for Good Museum
Fashion for Good Consortium Pilots Resource Efficient Cotton Farming
Going Beyond Cotton – New Project Harnesses Collaboration & Cutting-edge Technology to Create Circular Fashion
Event | Clothes Swap & Reflective Workshops with the T-REX Project
The Clothes Swap is back and for our last edition we are joining forces with the T-REX Project! Give your unworn items a new home and find your perfect outfit by swapping your pre-loved items as well as participating in exciting interactive fashion workshops on the 7th May at the Fashion for Good Museum.
Other Projects
Feedstock Activation Europe: FAE
Project FAE (Feedstock Activation Europe) is an initiative led by Fashion for Good to channel post-consumer textiles as feedstock for textile-to-textile recycling at scale. It addresses a core gap in the value chain: today, sorters cannot viably prepare post-consumer material at the price, quantity and quality recyclers require, leaving most non-rewearable textiles with no viable destination.
Mass Balance Demonstrator
The Mass Balance Demonstrator project aims to adopt and scale up biomass-attributed PET by implementing the mass balance attribution (MBA) chain-of-custody model. Its core purpose is to replace fossil-based feedstocks with renewable feedstocks, thereby speeding up brand-driven decarbonisation.
T2T Pre-Assessment Questionnaire
The T2T (textile-to-textile) Pre-Assessment Questionnaire aims to accelerate the adoption of textile-to-textile recycling technologies by establishing a standardised due diligence framework for brands and recyclers. Developed by Fashion for Good with support from Textile Exchange, it addresses a critical gap in the industry: the absence of reliable, comparable data on environmental impact and technical performance across recycling technology providers. The tool reduces duplicative, ad-hoc information requests by replacing them with a single, structured assessment that captures what brands need to know and what recyclers need to communicate.
