ACT Spearheaded to Address Circularity in Fashion
New York, NY, June 8, 2022 – A new group focused on advancing circular textile policy in the U.S. was announced today. The American Circular Textiles (ACT) policy group, was spearheaded by CSG (Circular Services Group), RRS (Resource Recycling Systems), and 11 founding organizations. ACT aims to align fashion’s circularity community on the development of supportive policy to address the challenges to scaling domestic textile recovery and end-of-life solutions, our nation’s fastest-growing waste stream. Their initial focus is on textile reuse.
After gathering a large group of stakeholders to endorse New York’s Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act (A8352/S7428), with recommendations that circularity policy is included in the bill, Rachel Kibbe, CEO of CSG, and Marisa Ader, Senior Consultant from RRS, realized the urgent need for a formal working body to represent the interests of circular fashion and its stakeholders. …