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UK-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation recently welcomed to its network 12 new members, including global brands and businesses from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. These members, including industrial thread company Coats, eBay, Zalando and Qatar-based LuLu Group, will play a key role in leading the transition to a circular economy.
Working with apparel and footwear manufacturers and performance materials customers, Coats also provides complementary products, services and software solutions. Coats is developing products made from recycled materials, such as its EcoVerde thread range.
The circular economy initiatives of Zalando, an online fashion and lifestyle platform selling clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty products, include selling pre-owned items and collaborating with other fashion companies to develop a circular capsule collection. In 2019, its initiatives extended the life of a million items; its 2023 goal is 50 million items.
The YOOX NET-A-PORTER Group is an online luxury and fashion retailer with 4.3 million customers in 180 countries. It has adopted a circular design approach to its private-label brand, provided circular economy training to its buying teams, and piloted digital passports for products, providing customers with care and repair services. The group has pledged to reduce waste and increase circularity through innovation, new services, and circular design, a press release from the foundation said.
Graphic Packaging International works with global brands, providing paper-based packaging for consumer goods. Its recyclable packaging is made from renewably-sourced materials and its transport packaging is reusable where possible. By 2025, the company aims to produce only recyclable packaging and reduce its use of non-renewable energy by a further 15 per cent. It is working towards recycling 100 per cent of fibre-based packaging.
The LuLu Group’s portfolio includes retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and real estate. Circular economy initiatives at its retail division, LuLu Hypermarket, include the recycling of packaging materials and food waste and the introduction of reusable paper bags to reduce plastic waste. Future plans include increasing the use of recyclable materials.
The world’s largest garment hanger company, with a portfolio that also includes packaging, branding, and supply chain solutions, Mainetti works with international retail and apparel brands. It aims to convert 60 per cent of hanger production, by tonnage, to recycled materials by 2025 and eliminate its use of single-use plastic bottles.
Majid Al Futtaim has the largest portfolio of shopping malls, entertainment and leisure facilities, retail, and residential communities across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The group has pledged to embed circular economy practices at the core of its operations by 2030 and establish a net positive business model by 2040, producing more energy and water than it consumes.
The Toyo Seikan Group manufactures packaging containers made from metal, plastic, paper, and glass. By 2030, the Japanese company aims to reduce its use of finite resources by 30 per cent and ensure all its products are recyclable or reusable. It will work towards reducing and recycling, and replacing plastic containers with non-plastic containers.
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UK-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation recently welcomed to its network 12 new members, including global brands and businesses from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. These members, including industrial thread company Coats, eBay, Zalando and Qatar-based LuLu Group, will play a key role in leading the transition to a circular economy.