Fiber Friends Unite

Organizations that are collaborating around the world:

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• BlueSign https://www.bluesign.com/consumer

• WWF (Panda.org)

• Better Cotton Initiative (reduce water use in cotton farming)

• Sustainable Apparel Coalition – Higg Index (facility module focuses on water usage)

• Cotton Connect (reduce water use in cotton farming)

• Cotton Inc. (Vibrating membrane technology)

• Clean By Design (nrdc.org – Natural Resources Defense Council) – better addresses water impact of fabric mills.  10 bst practices – 4 for water.  Practicle, low-cost, easy to implement and pay back quickly (usually within a year)

  • Install meters and measurement software to track use at the process and machine level

  • Meter and leak detention

  • Cooling water reuse (reuse the water that cools the equipement used in the dyeing and finishing process)

  • Condensate collection and recovery

  • Process and waste water reuse

• USAID

• Better Mill Initiative (China – Focused on solutions for the conservation of water and energy, pollution and chemical mgmt. Solidardad, H&M, C&A, Primark, New Look

• Partnership for cleaner textile (PaCT) – Bangladesh (brings together buyers, factories and technical specialists to improve its textile wet processing sector)

• Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) – Sweden

• Clever Care – increase consumer awareness

• Sustainable Apparel Coalition's Higgs Index – increase consumer awareness

• Hohenstein Textile Testing Institute