Transparency & Traceability

Transparency and traceability is the process of making information available to understand how fibres and materials were sourced, processed and produced through the supply chain. Improving the transparency of suppliers, and the traceability of sourced materials, is essential to enable more sustainable decision making. It is an enabling factor to help reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of the textile supply chain.

Projects

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    T-rex

    Pioneering EU funded T-REX Project Celebrates Completion and Reveals Blueprint for Scaling Textile-to-Textile Recycling in Europe

    The EU-funded T-REX (Textile Recycling Excellence) Project consortium today announced the successful completion of the project, presenting a blueprint for scaling textile-to-textile recycling, and showcasing demonstrator products produced through the successful implementation of the recycling processes for polyester, polyamide 6, and cellulosic materials within Europe.
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    Hangers, transparency and traceability

    In Conversation with Made2Flow: Gathering healthy impact data across the supply chain

    The Fashion for Good team interviewed Made2Flow's cofounder and CEO, Tal Shogol, to learn more about the innovator’s story, technology, challenges, and successes and showcase innovations that are driving tangible change in the industry and leading the path to scale.
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    Choosing which clothing.

    In Conversation with Vaayu: Creating transparency across impact data

    The Fashion for Good team interviewed Vaayu's cofounder and CEO, Namrata Sandhu, to learn more about the innovator’s story, technology, challenges, and successes and showcase innovations that are driving tangible change in the industry and leading the path to scale.
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    What is impact and why does it matter?

    This article explores the complexity of measuring environmental impact in fashion, covering assessment methods like Scope emissions and LCAs. It highlights challenges such as data gaps and resource limitations while showcasing solutions from Vaayu and Made2flow and outlining the campaign rollout.
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    Supply chain innovation in India

    Unlocking Opportunities for Supply Chain Innovation: India

    Supply chain innovation is emerging as a critical driver of sustainable transformation. In our Unlocking Opportunities for Supply Chain Innovation series, we dive into the complexities and opportunities within key sourcing regions. As a leading accelerator and convener for sustainable innovation, Fashion for Good is uniquely positioned to spotlight actionable solutions and amplify the voices of innovators and industry leaders shaping the future. This series offers an in-depth look at these markets' challenges, the breakthroughs redefining the status quo, and the untapped potential for driving systemic change across the fashion supply chain.
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    Fashion for Good and Textile Exchange Team Up to Trace Textile Waste

    AMSTERDAM - Fashion for Good and Textile Exchange introduce the Tracing Textile Waste Project, a two-year, multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at harmonising data and system capabilities in the reverse supply chain. This project seeks to create alignment through an open-source data template and a glossary of terms. It will establish and validate a standardised framework for collecting and exchanging textile waste data between the point of origin and recyclers. A key objective is to deliver recommendations to Textile Exchange for the development of new and existing standards, including the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and Recycled Claim Standard (RCS).
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    Meet the Innovator: Oritain

    Oritain applies forensic and data science to verify the origin of products and raw materials.
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    What is transparency?

    Transparency means being open and honest about where, when, and how a garment was made through every step of the fashion value chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to your local retail store.

    Satma CE

    Satma CE is a web based software that uses blockchain optionally to offer traceability across the waste-to-worth supply chain, including collection, segregation, recycling and processing. 

    Vaayu

    Vaayu is the world’s first automated carbon-tracking software for retailers, enabling businesses to reduce their footprint by providing accessible, real-time data to drive carbon-reduction at scale. By integrating with point-of-sale systems, such as Shopify, and leveraging proprietary AI and machine learning technology, Vaayu draws insights from production, sales and logistics to deliver a tangible solution in the fight against climate change and a more sustainable future for retail. 

    Made2Flow

    Founded in 2019, Made2Flow is a data-driven impact measurement and decarbonisation platform focused on gathering, validating, and analysing supply chain data. It provides brands with transparency on environmental metrics, enabling informed decisions to reduce their carbon footprint.

    TextileGenesis

    Founded in 2018, TextileGenesis™ provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables fashion brands and textile manufacturers to ensure reliable, secure, and fully digital traceability of their textiles, from fibre to consumer. By offering fibre-forward traceability for responsible and certified materials and a supply chain discovery approach for conventional ones, the platform helps to guarantee the authenticity and origins of materials across the textile, leather, and footwear industries.

     

    MonoChain

    MonoChain have developed a method for fashion companies to connect an individual physical item with a digital twin, based on blockchain, using a low-energy, sustainable form of non-fungible token (NFT). This resolves the problem of deceptive counterfeits, we are exploring the potential for providing fashion consumers with ways to get more value and enjoyment from their wardrobe.

    circular.fashion

     circular.fashion develops services and software for circular design, reuse and closed loop recycling to enable a transparent flow of information between material suppliers, fashion brands, consumers and recyclers. This ensures future reuse, reselling and recycling at the highest possible level of sustainability. 

    Haelixa

    Haelixa offers a DNA-based traceability solution that enables brands to mitigate supply chain risks and secure brand trust. By applying unique DNA markers directly to raw materials, Haelixa ensures full traceability from fibre to finished garments. The certificates seamlessly integrate with all digital traceability platforms, enabling brands to adopt the solution with ease.

    Credibl

    Credibl is a leading end-to-end track and trace solution using blockchain, AI and Cloud Computing to help brands and manufacturers to digitise sustainability practices. Through real-time data, efficiency and storytelling, they bridge the fragmented gaps between the different sustainability systems of farmers, manufacturers and brands.

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    Fashion for Good And Altmat To Accelerate Adoption of Next-gen Fibres Through Altag® Fibre Club

    Fashion for Good announces today a strategic partnership with Altmat, a pioneering materials science company transforming agricultural waste into high-value materials, to advance its innovative Fibre Club initiative. Altag® Fibre Club is designed to fast-track the commercial adoption of next-generation fibres from agri-residue at scale, supporting the industry's transition toward circular materials.
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    Findings from T-REX project

    Across a three-year period, the T-REX Project collected and sorted household textile waste and demonstrated the full recycling process of polyester, polyamide 6, and cellulosic materials from textile waste into new garments. Simultaneously, the project aimed to demonstrate sustainable and economically feasible business models for each actor along the value chain, conduct lifecycle analysis of the circular process, integrate digital tools that streamline the process of closed-loop textile recycling, and produce circular design guidelines. 
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    In Conversation with SEFF: Reengineering Hemp into high performance material

    The Fashion for Good team interviewed SEFF's CEO and Founder, Josh Nusenbaum, to learn more about the innovator’s story, technology, challenges, and successes and showcase innovations that are driving tangible change in the industry and leading the path to scale.
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    In Conversation with Pili: Reducing the impact of Indigo

    The Fashion for Good team interviewed Pili's CEO, Jérémie Blache Pili, to learn more about the innovator’s story, technology, challenges, and successes and showcase innovations that are driving tangible change in the industry and leading the path to scale.