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Every year, the world generates 92 million metric tonnes of textile waste, and much of it ends up in India, which has become a terminus for fast fashion. Vikram Aditya / pexels NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Biomimicry Institute’s Nature of Fashion initiative and Upaya Social Venture’s Dignified Jobs Accelerator have announced a partnership to develop a regional pilot for textile waste decomposition in India.

Textile recycling has spent years trapped between ambition and evidence, with fibre-to-fibre promises rarely translating into commercial deployment. The recent Textiles Recycling Expo in Brussels marked a shift. Automated sorting, chemical and mechanical recycling, and Digital Product Passports moved from concept to working infrastructure, forcing an uncomfortable question about who will actually buy the output.

Based on a proposal by fashion designer Yuima Nakazato, this item was created as a result of collaboration between Nakazato, Seiko Epson Corporation and YKK. YKK Corporation TOKYO,JAPAN: YKK Corporation has developed a concept version of its premium EXCELLA zipper series made from nonwoven fabric sheets created by fiberizing used clothing and other textile materials.

Fashion and textile waste continues to outpace the systems meant to manage it, with most discarded material still landfilled or incinerated worldwide. A new review examining education, community action and small business innovation finds that each advances circularity on its own, but none closes the gap alone, exposing a coordination failure rather than a knowledge one. Education builds awareness of circular practices but rarely converts that awareness into lasting behavioural change alone.

Indian knitwear remains largely seasonal, confined to winter essentials and mass production with limited design ambition. Saloni Jain, founder and designer of her eponymous label Saloni Jain, approaches knit as a creative discipline grounded in fibre science and construction logic. Her work in cotton, linen and lyocell reframes knitwear as a year-round design medium for the Indian market.

Bharat Tex 2026 is set to take place at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 14 to 17 July, organised by the Bharat Tex Trade Federation. Inspired by the government's Farm to Fibre to Factory to Fashion to Foreign vision, the third edition features expanded state participation, sustainability recognition and digital enablement tools.

MILAN, ITALY: Operating in a scenario characterized by geopolitical instability, slowing industrial investments, and new protectionist pressures. This is the main challenge for the Italian textile machinery industry that emerged during the General Assembly of ACIMIT (Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers), held last week in Milan at the Shareholders’ Hall of Palazzo Edison.

For Cibitex S.r.l., the agreement ensures industrial continuity and new growth opportunities for the “Finishing” business activities within an industrial group with a strong international presence and extensive experience in the textile industry.

Hemp has long promised more than it has delivered in commercial textile markets. Supply inconsistency, cost uncertainty, and the absence of viable blend systems kept it at the margins. A US company now has an India entity, local inventory, and identified business cases in hand. Tim Almond, Founder, Heartland USA, and Amey Padma, Head – India Business, explain the model.

Governments in more than two dozen markets are adopting or planning Extended Producer Responsibility schemes for textiles, building funding architectures designed to make fashion brands pay for end-of-life waste management. The infrastructure to sort and recycle what those schemes collect barely exists. A new analysis by WRAP maps how the gap between collection mandates and processing capacity is producing stockpiles, exports and at least one regulatory enforcement action.