Circular economy and sustainable fashion trends written from factory practice — what has reached production, what is still a pilot, and which lesson teaches the work. Free to read, no account needed.
10 September 2026 · 8 min read
Circular fashion is no longer only a brand story. Some of it now shows up as machinery, standard operating procedures and rejected shipments. Other parts remain pilots that will not carry volume for years. This post separates the two.
Read the post28 August 2026 · 7 min read
Design for disassembly sounds like a design brief. On the floor it is a list of very specific choices about trims, threads, fusing and seam types — each of which has a cost, a quality risk and a machine implication.
Read the post14 August 2026 · 6 min read
Every percentage point of fabric utilisation is material that never becomes waste and never needs recovering. It is the cheapest circularity lever a factory controls directly, and it is measured every day already.
Read the post30 July 2026 · 7 min read
Recycled polyester is the most common recycled content claim in apparel, and the most commonly misread. The useful questions are where the feedstock came from, which route processed it, and what that does to the yarn you receive.
Read the post16 July 2026 · 6 min read
Traceability requests have moved from questionnaires to conditions of business, but not all of them ask for the same thing. Separating tier mapping from certificate flow from passports makes the workload manageable.
Read the post2 July 2026 · 6 min read
Resale and repair programmes only work if garments physically survive to a second owner. That pushes requirements back into construction, trims and inspection — the parts of the process a marketing programme cannot fix later.
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Written by Sanjeewa Dehiwalage. Figures quoted are indicative of common practice, not standards or legal limits. Self-study material, not certified training.
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