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Earthshot Prize innovations aim to reshape textile landscape

Influential platform

Over just a few years, the prize has grown into an influential platform for environmental innovation, shaping global conversations around circular design, regenerative production, and sustainable consumption. For the textile and fashion industries—which together account for around ** per cent of global carbon emissions and vast volumes of water and chemical pollution—the Earthshot initiative has highlighted a number of solutions that offer hope for a cleaner, circular future. Among the most compelling of these are four finalists speaking directly to textile challenge—Circ, Colorifix, Africa Collect Textiles, and Matter. Each of these ventures tackles a different link in the textile chain, from fibre recycling and clean dyeing to waste recovery and microplastic capture. Together, they illustrate how an industry long associated with overproduction and waste could be reimagined as a model for sustainable innovation.