During all our expert interviews together with our partner CAIF, we learned that the system as a whole needs to change. We are living in a disposable consumer culture that simply won’t last any longer – All players from consumers, businesses and governments will have to collaborate to change our linear system to a circular …
Chapter 5: What are the problems in the bigger system? Read More »
The journey of post-consumer waste is a bit of a black box. Where does it all end up? The sad matter is that less than 1% of clothing gets recycled back into new clothing. The majority ends up in the automotive industry as cleaning wipes or fillers, some goes to the cement industry and much …
While in Europe we work with sophisticated technology to automate sorting, in India sorting is often done manually and it is quite a fragmented process. To better understand sorting practices we visited various facilities in Mumbai and Bangalore and spoke to their employees. Here are some of our key findings: Informal sorting: It may come …
We now know what the waste looks like, but what happens next? We were keen to learn where post-consumer textile waste ended up. To research this we spoke with different actors within the chain: Consumers, dry waste collectors, at home collectors and NGO’s. Here’s what we a learnt during these interviews: India has no formal …
To kick things off we wanted to better understand what textile waste in India looked like. What is the quality? What volumes are we talking about? We spoke to various Indian waste collectors and recyclers to get a better picture of the current situation. Here are our key learnings: Clothes are handed down: Donations and …
Chapter 1: What does post-consumer textile waste in India look like? Read More »
India is one of the largest producers, employers and consumers of fashion. But perhaps more surprisingly, India is also the second largest importer of post-consumer waste (yes: they import old clothing for recycling) this combined with a growing consumer market creating textile waste creates a“double burden” in the country. Despite this there is no formal …
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Clearly, waste is one of the textile industry’s greatest challenges — while post-consumer waste or used clothes represents the third highest form of municipal waste coming from households in India, pre-consumer waste is globally landfilled or incinerated to the tune of approximately 15 million kgs per year. All this waste has a significant cost — …
Khaloom is an India-based textile design and production house that produces hand-woven fabrics from recycled yarns: Creating value from waste and providing its workers with dignified livelihoods. Or how some describe it: Family. It is Enviu’s first venture addressing the obstacles to change in the textile industry and it is the venture that catalyzed the …
With our venture, SUSCLO, our goal is to pursue the sustainable production of garments and make sustainable fabrics increasingly accessible to brands. The apparel industry is the second most polluting sector worldwide and its negative social and environmental impact is enormous, with raw materials being the biggest contributor. Most of the environmental impact of the garment …
We are building new handlooms at Khaloom! Khaloom is scaling up! We are installing ten more new handlooms that will be operational by the end of September, resulting in an increase of in-house production capacity from 2000 meters per month to 4000 meters per month. This will let us keep up with the market demand, …
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