As per a Women’s Wear Daily report, Global Fashion Agenda plans to kickstart another project to drive forward circularity in Bangladesh’s garment industry.

The goal of this project, which runs until the end of 2021, is to find a scalable transition to a circular fashion system in Bangladesh, says Holly Syrett, Senior Sustainability Manager. It involves manufacturers like Bangladesh-based Tarasima Apparels., brands like Bestseller and recyclers like Swedish chemical recycling firm Renewcel. They hope to capture and direct post-production fashion waste and put it back into the production of new fashion products, alongside finding a marketplace solution to deadstock fabrics and overstock garments in Bangladesh. Eventually, the learnings may be rolled out to garment sectors in Vietnam and Indonesia, too.

Partners like Reverse Resources, a software solution for fashion production waste to brands sourcing in Bangladesh, hope to achieve this by creating waste data visibility in real-time for garment factories.

Recycler Renewcell will work to coordinate and organize sourcing with mills and traders (or waste-handlers) in Bangladesh while overseeing the quality of feedstock, as Jenny Fredricsdotter, circular business manager at Renewcell shared. The recycler purchases loads of waste by the container, which is then transported by sea to its plant in Sweden.