Asia Garment Hub
Guide: Upstream Circularity Playbook
This playbook is a must-read for anyone wanting to scale circular business models. Designed to help stakeholders valorise post-industrial textile waste, the Playbook equips manufacturing hubs with tools needed to drive sustainable change. It offers case studies across multiple countries, providing a step-by-step guide specifically tailored for garment manufacturing regions. First published on Asia Garment Hub in December 2024.
This guide will help you to scale circular business models using post-industrial waste.
Who the guide is for:
- Sustainability managers at brands and suppliers.
- Anyone interested in how to scale post-industrial waste circular business models.
This guide will help you to:
- Understand the essential enablers needed to support a conducive environment for upstream circularity.
- Establish and scale circularity practices in garment manufacturing countries.
What the guide covers:
- Segregating textile waste in factories.
- Digital traceability of textile waste.
- Collecting aggregating and sorting.
- Matching textile waste to best use case.
- Design and recycled materials.
- 21 case studies from manufacturing countries around the world.
About this guide:
This guide was developed by Global Fashion Agenda with support from Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the H&M Foundation.
3 February 2025
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