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The voices of this episode are: Alexander Granberg, Senior Project Specialist Sustainability & Innovation, at the Danish fashion company BESTSELLER and Angeline Elfström, Business Development Manager, OnceMore and the host Konrad Olsson from Scandinavian MIND. Engaging conversations that covered a rage of topics such as: - Why working more sustainably is a cross-disciplinary practice within a fashion company - Lessons learned from implementing textile innovations - How the collaboration between Bestseller and OnceMore started - The need to educate the fashion industry in new technologies

In the second episode of our podcast series with Scandinavian MIND, our Industrial Policy Specialist Maria Persdotter Isaksson and Åsa Degerman, Manager of OnceMore®, touch on this hot topic: The upcoming EU regulations. We will explain the regulations, discuss their implications for the industry, and explore how we can prepare.

This time with Christine Goulay. In this episode, we focus on the transformation of the textile industry, together with Christine Goulay. - …it doesn’t matter if you just started and you’re junior, it doesn’t matter if you’re senior, if you like a solution, a startup and/or an innovator, you become their champion and you help them navigate this. You continue to connect the dots for them internally in this big complex structure and you coach them on who they’re meeting with and what they need to know, Christine Goulay.

In this episode we focus on the textile waste as a raw material. Anna-Kaisa Huttunen, Director of Partnerships, Rester and Åsa Alvhage, Sourcing Manager for OnceMore talks about the growing importance of textile sourcing ahead of the EU recycling mandate in 2025, how the business of textile sourcing works, how the collaboration between Rester and Oncemore started and also gives som tips for other industry players who want to get in on the action.

In the fifth and final episode of our podcast series you will hear how the collaboration between OnceMore® and Lindex started, how Lindex implemented OnceMore in their business, and Lindex’s thoughts on the changes that have been made and need to be made in the industry.

Södra sets out to tackle waste. In this first episode, Ecotextile Talks host Philip Berman speaks to Södra’s technical product director Johannes Bogren, the founder of Accelerating Circularity Karla Magruder, circular fashion researcher and consultant Cathryn Hall, and Nicole Rycroft, who founded the environmental non-profit Canopy.

Next-generation pulp from post-consumer textiles. Ecotextile Talks speaks to Södra’s Johannes Bogren and Helena Claesson about the ‘magic’ behind its proprietary recycling process, and we also hear from Umar Chowdhury at Sateri, who already uses OnceMore, Sonja Zak at Lenzing, which is currently trialling this pulp to make branded Refibra Tencel, Karla Magruder at Accelerating Circularity along with Nicole Rycroft at the NGO Canopy.

Sourcing feedstock for textile recycling. Ecotextile Talks speaks to Södra’s Niclas Berg, whose job involves sourcing feedstock for the company's OnceMore process, Lina Wiles, head of sustainability in Sweden for Elis, which is currently Södra’s major supplier.

EPR and the EU Waste Directive. Speaking mainly to French stakeholders – given that France has had an EPR rule on textiles for a decade – we talk to Refashion, Decathlon and the Policy Hub about what the EU directive will mean for member states when they’ll have to collect textile waste separately by 2025.

Closing the loop with retailers and consumers. In the final episode in our five-part documentary series on textile-to-textile recycling, we get to hear from retailers Bestseller and Filippa K about how and why they are tackling the issue of circularity in their supply chains. We also take to the streets of Brighton – a city with the only elected Green party MP in the UK – to find out if shoppers really are bothered about textile circularity and sustainable fashion in general.