Seventeen businesses, representing more than half of UK clothing and textile sales, have signed up to Textiles 2030, committing to reducing their carbon impacts by 50%, and water impacts by 30%.
Achieving these targets will be challenging and requires radical change, not just from brand and retailer signatories, but from those across the textiles value chain, including textile collectors and recyclers, reuse organizations, technology innovators, sector organizations, academia and government.
The initiative is bringing together these organizations to collaborate on making rapid, science-based progress on climate action and on making the move to a more circular system. It aims to inspire the textiles businesses to work together and transform the way that the United Kingdom supplies, uses and disposes of clothing and textiles.