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Fashion

Global Fashion Summit 2026: Moving Towards Regenerative Resilience

At Global Fashion Summit 2026 in Copenhagen, fashion leaders outlined how brands can build long-term resilience through stronger supply chains, circular design strategies, material innovation and sustainability-led business models.

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Design

Material Futures in a Post-plastic World

The Future Laboratory sits down with Jessie French, artist and founder of design studio Other Matter, to discuss the tangible application of algae-based bioplastics and using retail as a real-world testing ground for material change.

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Sustainability

Stat: Global waste is projected to surge as circular design becomes critical

Waste volumes are projected to rise more than 80% by 2050, according to a new report from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) environmental charity.

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Luxury

LuxePack Monaco 2025: Luxury Packaging’s Era of Accountability

Evolving beyond its functional and desirable roles, packaging now stands as a marker of environmental credibility, material intelligence and ethical transparency.

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Food & Drink

M&S tracks plastic’s afterlife with invisible UV packaging tags

UK - Marks & Spencer has become the first UK retailer to launch recyclable milk bottle packaging featuring invisible UV tags, marking a significant step toward smarter sustainability.

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Technology

Plastic-eating microbes in the Arctic could be a recycling breakthrough

A study published in May 2023 in Frontiers in Microbiology has unveiled cold-weather microbes in the Arctic and the Alps that can break down certain plastics at a low temperature of 15°C (59°F).

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Fashion

Ganni repurposes fabric waste in new recycling scheme

Danish fashion brand Ganni has unveiled an in-house recycling initiative to upcycle production waste into new garments.

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Food & Drink

Overherd powder makes oat milk more sustainable

In the UK, Yorkshire-based start-up Overherd has created an oat milk powder in an effort to make oat milk consumption more sustainable.

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Sustainability

CES 2022: A kitchen appliance for recycling at home

Circumventing the often complicated government guidelines that prevent many well-meaning home-owners from recycling properly, the Lasso Loop takes the circular economy into its own hands.