Fixing fashion: follow up, Written evidence submitted by ‘World Circular Textiles Day’

World Circular Textiles Day, which will take place every year on 8th October, was launched in 2020 to celebrate the efforts of a growing community of companies, organisations and individuals actively working towards a circular textiles future. Its main aim is to record the progress and chart the momentum of circularity in textiles.

In April 2020 we convened a group of experts, brands, retailers, conveners, collectors, value chain producers, designers, policymakers to explore the short and long term impacts of COVID-19 on the industry and what it will mean for circularity.

The aim was to describe the current practices, products, services and processes that are in place today, the impact of COVID-19 and what needs to be in place to achieve full-circularity of textile materials. We captured statistics, insights and examples from key people, companies, innovators and industry working groups in order to build a common understanding of the challenges and opportunities ahead and how the industry must evolve.

We have put together some key discussion points from these stakeholder groups in response to the relevant inquiry topics in this paper.