Sri Lanka-based Hirdaramani Group has teamed up with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s ‘Make Fashion Circular’ initiative to improve the use of natural resources and reduce waste with better design in apparel manufacturing, one of the world’s most polluting industries. The group, one of the island’s biggest apparel exporters, aims to reduce energy and water use and improve waste management at its factories island-wide as part of its sustainability initiative.
The group is part of a global project to redesign jeans to make their manufacture sustainable by 2021.Its efforts focus on garment durability, material health, recyclability and traceability. Hirdaramani employs about 20,000 people in factories across the island and provides apparel design, production and delivery services to some of the world’s top fashion and clothing brands.
