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Fashion’s Waste Crisis Looms: Redress Gathered Asia’s Industry Leaders Spotlighting Circular Fashion and Actions for a Sustainable Future
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[Hong Kong, 3 March 2025] – Redress, a pioneering Asia-focused environmental NGO accelerating circular fashion, under the support from the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency in the 15th Redress Design Award, successfully convened two industry events in Hong Kong and Shanghai, bringing fashion leaders to confront the escalating crisis of textile waste and explore innovative new models that put Asia’s leading circularity opportunity in the hotspot. These high-impact discussions sparked vital conversations on fashion, circularity, and culture inspiring emerging market consumers and Asia-fashion industry enablers to become more conscious about circular fashion. 2025 marks a major milestone for the Redress Design Award, celebrating the 15th edition of the global competition (previously the Ecochic Design Award). This exciting anniversary also, however, underscores a stark reality — that fashion production continues to increase in scale, depleting planetary resources and creating unsustainable amounts of waste.
Despite 18 years of successes and heightened global understanding of fashion’s waste through Redress’ efforts, textile waste is set to worsen. The global fashion industry produces more than 100 to 150 billion items of clothing per year.1 The majority of clothing is landfilled or burned at the end of their life.2 Shockingly, textile waste is estimated to increase by about 60% between 2015 and 2030.
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Redress is a Hong Kong-headquartered, Asia-focused environmental charity with a mission to accelerate the change to a circular fashion industry by educating and empowering designers and consumers so as to reduce clothing’s negative environmental impacts. Its dynamic programmes work to minimise the negative impacts of fashion, whilst promoting innovative new models and driving growth towards a more sustainable industry via the circular economy. Working directly with a wide range of stakeholders, including designers, manufacturers, brands, educational bodies, government and consumers, Redress aims to create lasting environmental change in fashion.
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Disclaimer: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organisers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.