Updated : Dec 2020
The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) facilitates the development of practical solutions for the textile industry to minimize fiber fragmentation and release it to the environment from textile manufacturing and product life cycle. The organization presents the opportunity to align globally as an industry through its connection and member base at the brand, retail, supplier, research, industry organization, and policy level. This cross-industry connection expedites understanding and reducing the possibility of repetition of research. This collaborative approach allows more extensive understanding, and progress to levels of understanding that would be unattainable in a stand-alone organization.
With a vision that states ‘A future with managed fiber fragmentation and release from textiles, to the environment’, the work of TMC looks to connect and translate deep academic research, with the reality of commercial supply chain production to offer solutions to its brand, retail and supplier members and ultimately for the greater good of our ecosystems.
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Development of reproducible test methodology for microfiber release solutions in textiles
Understanding fibre fragmentation and loss at the consumer level
Proactive textile engineering and R&D at the textile material level
Facilitating cross industry stakeholder groups for change in fibre fragmentation
Best practice guidelines for suppliers to combat fiber loss at manufacturing level
