Together with fellow EU-funded SCIRT Project, we organized the second open webinar of a series to help navigate the transformations taking place in the European textile landscape and highlight how relationships between different players can be nurtured and strengthened to move towards an effective circular supply chain. The webinars are streamed live on LinkedIn and available to join and revisit for free.
This session took the form of a panel discussion exploring key digital solutions for enabling circular textiles along with a deep dive on the Digital Product Passport, which supports both transparency and traceability of textile products, which will be required by multiple incoming EU regulations. Throughout the hour, we covered the following:
Moderated by Kirsi Niinimaki, Associate Professor in Design, Research team leader of Fashion/Textile Futures Aalto University.
Speakers from both projects, representing different stages of the textile supply chain, shared their insights:
Revisit the first webinar of the series: Separate household textile waste collection by January 2025 — what does it mean for the textile industry?