Circularity in the Supply Chain

In the United States, 26 billion pounds of textiles end up in landfills. Much of this waste is due to the linear and traditional “take-make-dispose” discard model. This research aims to further the adoption of a circular fashion model by first understanding how consumers engage with digital technologies, and by determining which information is most …

Born Digital: Effective Digital Trigger Methodology and Content that Incentivizes Apparel Consumers to Trust and Engage with Digital Apparel Labels Called Digital Product Passports, Rana Sidahmed Read More »

The designers, brands sourcing professionals and strategists within the fashion industry are currently searching for a means to make more sustainable decisions in a world that is more global each day. Many efforts to accomplish this task are either driven my marketing or based on data that is not easy to communicate. This study will …

Can Farms Save Fashion? Applying an innovative strategic model integrating insights across industry sectors and geographic regions to identify effective solutions to the sustainability challenges confronting the fashion industry., Diana Purcell Read More »

The fashion industry is facing highly publicized scrutiny for the unprecedented growth in textile waste and extremely polluting supply chain operations. Fundamental changes are needed to the fashion business model in order to minimize the damaging environmental impacts and ensure long-term sustainability. The circular economy has emerged as a possible solution, but systemic change is …

Systems and Infrastructure for a Circular Economy in Fashion: The Business Case for Textile to Textile Recycling, Dinelle Salvador Read More »

There is a world-wide apparel and textile waste crisis. This crisis exists at a global, national and municipal level. New York City, the largest city in North America, generates an overwhelming 200,000 tons of apparel and textile waste annually, representing 6.3% of the total municipal solid wastes collected and the New York City’s Department of …

Building a Profitable Domestic Textile Waste Recycling and Innovation Industry in New York City in a Covid-19 Impacted Economy, Sharon Silbermann Read More »

This paper explores the value chain of textile-to-textile recycling and seeks to identify the communication gaps within this system. The paper examines different areas of the system including fashion brands and textile recycling companies to understand how these stakeholders cooperate with each other. The research also considers how outside contributors, such as circular technology, can …

Circularity in the Fashion Industry: Communication Gaps in Relation to Textile to Textile Recycling, Emily Bass Read More »

“Artisanal” approaches to production and services are a growing trend across industries – from beer to bread, clothing and advertising. But in the Global South, artisan work has the potential to be much more. Across low- and middle-income countries, artisanal approaches to work have proven to be uniquely fit for those experiencing unemployment or poverty, …

Ankole Cow Horn: Identifying Effective Strategies for Optimizing the Supply Chain to Create Empowerment and Sustainable Development from Ranch to Consumer, Shanley Knox Harruthoonyan Read More »

This paper examines the secondhand clothing market in Africa using Ghana as a case study to determine how this business is impacting the local apparel industry and the environment respectively. The study seeks to find out what is influencing the importation of used clothing from western countries to Africa, specifically Ghana. The research explores how …

The business of the secondhand clothing market in Africa and its Influence on the local apparel industry: Ghana as a case study., Adwoa Addomah-Gyabaa Read More »

The need to tackle the growing textile waste problem is well-established for post- consumer, pre-consumer, and post-industrial waste types. If fibers were made from all the post- consumer textile cotton waste generated annually in the USA alone, it would be ten times the current, annual supply of organic cotton available globally. However, the scale of …

Incentivising Change in the USA: exploring the business case for textile to textile recycling using post consumer waste, Evan McCauley Read More »