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Fashion for good advances footwear circularity

06/02/2025
Fashion for good advances footwear circularity
Fashion for Good has announced "Closing the Footwear Loop," a collaborative initiative aimed at addressing circularity challenges in the footwear industry. Bringing together 14 leading brands, including adidas, Puma, Dr. Martens, and Tommy Hilfiger, the project seeks to transition footwear from a linear "take-make-dispose" model to a circular system.

The footwear industry produces approximately 23.8 billion pairs of shoes annually, with 90% ending up in landfills. The complexity of footwear design, which often includes over 60 different materials, has hindered recycling and circularity efforts.

This initiative, in collaboration with The Footwear Collective, Global Footwear Future Coalition (GFFC), and Global Fashion Agenda, will focus on key intervention points such as waste stream mapping, circular design principles, and end-of-use innovations. The project will deliver a European footwear waste assessment (2025), a roadmap for circular footwear design (2025), and trials for recycled materials (2026).

Fashion for Good’s Managing Director, Katrin Ley, emphasised the urgency of systemic change, stating that the initiative represents a crucial step towards reimagining how footwear is designed, used, and disposed of.

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