BARCELONA – Europe’s sustainable clothing and textile sector currently faces a number of critical challenges such as fragmented supply chains, regulatory ambiguity, and insufficient data tools, a conference has heard.
Delegates at the Ecosystex Conference, held in Barcelona last week, also heard that designers and product developers have limited knowledge of downstream impacts, and that their incentives often don’t align with sustainability goals. Moreover, regulators underestimate the complexities of their regulations, while consumers have not yet become significant drivers of sustainability in the industry.
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