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T1 Transforming the Textile Industry: Partnering for Circularity
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 textile
K1 textile industry
K1 circular economy
K1 manufacturing
YR 2025
FD 2025-10
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/48708
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/48708
NO The textile sector is interconnected and globalized. To meaningfully reduce the sector’s environmental impacts, the hotspots along the entire value chain - meaning areas of high environmental impact and thus where improvements are needed - need to be addressed. But, those areas causing most of the negative impacts and where improvements are most needed might be outside the immediate control of a small textile business. For example, a fabric manufacturer might not feel it can influence the farming practices of its cotton supplier. This is where partnerships play a key role in enabling life cycle thinking—an approach that looks beyond individual stages, like manufacturing, to consider the full range of a product’s impacts across its entire life cycle. By bringing together diverse insights from across the value chain, partners help develop solutions with environmental, social and economic benefits.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 23, 2026