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Circular supply chains start with effective textile waste management

With our textile waste management solutions, you’ll move from linear practices to closed-loop material cycles, making measurable progress on waste and emissions. Unlock circularity today!
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Build resilience through circular supply chains

The resources which underpin the textile & apparel industry are becoming scarcer and less stable, despite increasing global demand. Our textile waste management solutions help you build resilience, reduce risk factors and prepare for future supply chain challenges by guiding you towards the establishment of circular economy business practices.

“Creating effective circular supply chains and functioning recycling eco-systems are key to reducing the industry’s reliance on virgin resource and the associated climate risks. Establishing textile waste management practices are an essential starting point.”

Marina Chahboune
Founder, Closed Loop Fashion

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Textile waste is an increasingly valuable resource

Developed over many years of experience in factories globally, the Textile Waste Management Standard (TWMS by CLF) by Closed Loop Fashion is a comprehensive framework designed to guide textile and apparel factories, recycling facilities, and waste handlers towards sustainable, compliant and profitable waste management practices. Our extensive assessment and identified Corrective Actions enables us to divert waste towards more preferred disposal methods such as reuse and recycling, helping you establish circular supply chains and viable new business models.

On-site assessment & waste mapping

  • analysis of the current textile waste and resource operations
  • Identifying potential to reduce textile waste and waste streams along the whole supply chain and related raw material recovery opportunities

CAP & roadmap to circularity

  • development and creation of a Corrective Action Plan with measurable Key Performance Indicators
  • Plan to regulate and standardise in-house and supplier’s waste management practices (e.g. waste collecting, sorting, storing, packing, tracking)
  • Create a buying policy for secondary raw materials

Implementation of circular economy business practices

  • implement a waste management system, including re-logistics, waste-recovery, preparation for recycling and take-back systems
  • set up of traceability tools
  • preparation for recycling certifications (GRS etc)
  • matchmaking with other industries

Capacity building & training

  • hands-on workshops
  • practical training for workers and management on circular economy, recycling, resource recovery and textile waste management
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All stakeholders benefit from establishing standardized textile waste management practices

Try our textile waste management solutions to:

  • Meet your clients’ demand, without increasing the use of resources
  • Reduce your production costs
  • Become a pioneer in circular fashion
  • Maximise the sustainable use and value of resources 
  • Move away from resource-based growth to a new era of performance-based growth
  • Accelerate systemic change across the value chain
  • Create new business models
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Discussion with BGMEA on Turning Bangladesh’s Textile Waste into Value

Closed Loop Fashion recently met with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) in Dhaka, one of the country's leading garment and apparel export associations, to discuss scaling circularity in Bangladesh’s textile sector. The exchange focused on key challenges around textile waste and recycling systems. With upcoming EU requirements such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the discussion highlighted the need to accelerate action and collaboration.
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Training SMEs in Indonesia on Material Declaration and Textile Waste Management

Closed Loop Fashion delivered two focused training session under the joint Public-Private Partnership project with Evermos in Bandung, Indonesia, bringing together 115 representatives from SME brands and manufacturers to strengthen circular practices across the textile value chain. The sessions addressed two critical topics: Material Declaration and Textile Waste Management, both increasingly essential as expectations around transparency and sustainability in global textile supply chains continue to rise.
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Closed Loop Fashion & Evermos Brings Upcycling Design to BINUS University

Closed Loop Fashion, together with Evermos, recently hosted a hybrid lecture introducing upcycling design to fashion design students at BINUS University, Jakarta, Indonesia. With 51 students joining the session, the lecture marked the beginning of the university’s involvement in the develoPPP project and its Circular Design Innovation Program, which the students will be part of moving forward.
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Supporting fashion brands and manufacturers to make a difference.

We provide apparel and textile industry stakeholders with practical tools and holistic solutions for applied sustainability and circularity, from capacity building to strategy planning, creation and implementation.

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