adidas, Inditex, Zalando and others join footwear circularity partnership
Nearly 24 million shoes are produced globally each year, often using over 40 different components from various materials.
Seven footwear brands, including adidas, Inditex and Zalando, have joined a Fashion for Good initiative to accelerate innovation towards footwear circularity.
The partnership will focus on four core workstreams: developing circular design guidelines; validating circular footwear materials; gathering data on post-consumer waste flows to develop end-of-use solutions such as repair, disassembly and recycling; and creating a footwear traceability data protocol to back sustainability claims.
