CIRCLETEX wants to work with all the players in the chain of corporate clothing, protective clothing and flat linen on investigating whether a system can be set up where these textile waste streams c…
The City of Mechelen wants to promote the circularity of its employees’ work clothing. Circular criteria were included in the technical specifications of the new contract documents. For example, …
KU Leuven wants to start a circular procurement process for lab coats for students. Currently, students who require a lab coat for their course buy it from the course service, student association…
The report A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion’s future outlines a vision and sets out ambitions and actions – based on the principles of a circular economy – to design out negative impacts a…
By examining each stage of a garment’s life from production to disposal, WRAP has identified key areas where further focus is required to build on the improvements achieved through SCAP.
The platform is a web tool managed by BusinessEurope and its national members that contributes to the EU’s agenda on circular economy.
The EU GPP criteria are developed to facilitate the inclusion of green requirements in public tender documents. While the adopted EU GPP criteria aim to reach a good balance between environmental per…
In 2017, OVAM instructed Centextbel, the Belgian knowledge centre for textiles, to conduct some research into the main ‘hidden’ professional textile chains. Using the results from this research, thi…
European Textiles & Workwear Market The role of Public Procurement in making textiles circular
Information about circular procument and example cases per specific product category.