Brands should tackle fibre fragments upstream

AMSTERDAM – Today’s report from Fashion for Good and The Microfibre Consortium says that apparel brands and textile mills need to design out textile fibre shedding at source – and not to bet on single “fixes” such as washing machine filters.

Fashion for Good (FFG) and The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) have together warned that fibre fragments from all textile types are now a pervasive pollutant – and that the only credible way to tackle them is to redesign fabrics to shed less, backed by aligned test methods and system-wide interventions across the textile value chain.