ACT in the News 


2025 Media Coverage.

How Brands and Advocates are Rethinking Textile Waste in the trump Era

1/27 Modern Retail

Resell, Recycle, Remake: Fighting the Flood of Ultra-fast Fashion

1/28 NPR Here & Now

Fire-Stricken LA Is Swamped With Clothing Donations — Not All of Them Wanted

1/15 Business of Fashion

Los Angeles donation centers are overwhelmed with used clothing

1/15 Fashionista

2024 Media Coverage.


European Parliament ‘Patches Up Loopholes’ in EU Textile EPR Proposal

2/21 Sourcing Journal

The trendy second-hand clothing market is huge and still growing – yet nobody is turning a profit

3/4 BBC

US bill includes $14bn for textile circularity

3/6 Ecotextile News

A new US bill incentivizes circular fashion in a bid to compete with China

3/6 Vogue Business

Congress’ Americas Act Earmarks $14 Billion for Circular Fashion

3/6 Sourcing Journal

A New US Trade Bill Aims to Incentivise Fashion Nearshoring, Circularity

3/6 Business of Fashion

Tracking the future of US recycling policy in Congress

3/7 Waste Dive

Americas Act aims to cut China out of US textile, apparel sourcing picture

3/7 Just Style

US introduces new bill to counter Chinese production and encourage local supply

3/8 Fashion United

California becomes first state to implement mandatory clothing recycling program

12/27 CBS News

The U.S. Just Released the First Federal Report on the Negative Impact of Fast Fashion

12/12 Sourcing Journal

America Recycles Day Isn't All About Bottles and Cans

11/14 Sourcing Journal

What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Fashion’s Sustainability Ambitions?

11/11 Sourcing Journal

Fashion experts reveal signs your clothes won't last

10/7 Daily Mail

California Passes First US Clothing Recycling Law

10/7 Eco Waste Coalition

California takes on fast fashion with new textile recycling law

10/2 Yahoo Finance

Sustainable Fashion News for October

10/2 Good on You

Responsible Textile Recovery Act Passes in California

10/1 Fashion United

The sneaky second-hand tax that cheats shoppers out of vital savings

9/28 Daily Mail

Industry Players Continue Multi-Pronged Effort to Reduce Fashion’s Impacts

9/23 Sustainable Brands

Fashion Briefing: Resellers push against double taxation on secondhand goods

9/13 Glossy

Ethical and Inclusive are In Style at NYFW

9/12 Impact Alpha

California Wants Fashion Brands to Pay for Waste

9/6 Business of Fashion

Consumers Still Love E-Commerce – Here’s How the US Can Compete

9/4 Sourcing Journal

California Textile Waste Bill Signed Into Law

10/1 Ecotextiles News

ACT Urges Lawmakers to ditch secondhand's 'double-dipping' tax policy

8/27 Sourcing Journal

ThredUp, Vestiaire Collective join petition to end taxation on secondhand apparel

8/26 Fashion Dive

US' ACT Launches Petition to End Double Taxation on Secondhand

8/26 Fashion2Fibre

Secondhand Clothes Are Taxed Twice, These Fashion Brands Want to Stop It

8/23 Teen Vogue

Slow Fashion Caucus urges Biden to include industry reps in Climate and Trade Task Force

8/17 Apparel Resources

Pingree urges Biden to give the fashion industry a voice in climate policy discussions

8/15 Maine Moring Star

Much Ado About No Waste: The Americas Act and U.S. Circularity Legislation

8/5 Following the Footprints

ACT voices support for ‘transformational’ Americas Trade Act

7/29 Just Style

California Responsible Textile Recovery Act Advances

7/3 Sourcing Journal

Bipartisan bill aims to spur a $14 billion domestic circular economy

6/7 GreenBiz

Sustainable Fashion Forum Lays Out Challenges Ahead

5/6 Sourcing Journal

China is rapidly expanding its influence in our backyard and US must act now

4/27 Fox News

American Dry Cleaner | ABC Joins Efforts to Spearhead Circular Fashion Movement

4/24 American Dry Cleaner

Fast Company | 3 policy changes that need to happen to make fashion more sustainable

4/18 Fast Company

CASSIDY DELIVERS REMARKS ON HIS AMERICAS ACT, HIGHLIGHTS LOUISIANA INVESTMENT

4/10 Cassidy Press Release


2023 Media Coverage.

9/8 Bollyside

Leaders in the US fashion industry come together to propose ethical and sustainable policy solutions

9/7 WWD

‘Fabric Act,’ ‘Fashion Act,’ Reintroduced at NYFW

8/7 Waste 360

American Circular Textiles Coalition Advocates for Textiles In EPR Law

8/6 The Hill

Congress can’t be slow to address fast fashion

8/4 EcoTextile News

Coalition urges action on US textile waste

8/3 Waste Today

Group calls for EPA to include textiles in efforts to address plastic waste

8/3 Recycling Prod. News

American Circular Textiles wants textile waste added to EPA’s plastic pollution strategy

8/3 Recycling Today

Group calls for EPA to include textiles in efforts to address plastic waste

8/3 Multichannel Merch.

Coalition Asks EPA to Add Textiles to Plastic Reduction Plan

7/28 Vogue Business

Mounting lawsuits and legislation threaten Shein’s US takeover plan

7/27 Vogue Business

Where fashion is leading on US environmental policy — and where it’s falling behind

7/14 Sourcing Journal

Who Should Be Responsible for Ending Textile Waste?

7/14 Just Style

California bill delay means apparel sector can ‘craft US’ first textile EPR’ initiative

7/10 Politico Pro

Newman converts textile recycling measure to 2-year bill

7/7 Apparel Resources

US apparel sector calls for two-year Extended Producer Responsibility bill

7/6 Politico Pro

California textile recycling bill gets amendments ahead of key hearing

7/6 Ecotextile News

Coalition calls for more time on EPR bill

7/6 Just Style

US apparel sector calls for two-year Extended Producer Responsibility bill

5/30 Fortune

A slew of countries are asking fashion companies to pay for recycling programs as clothing waste becomes overwhelming

5/26 Sourcing Journal

"Talking Trash" Recycling Roundtable Suggests FTC Suffers From Textiles Blind Spot

5/25 Bloomberg

Regulators Want Fashion Brands to Pay for Their Textile Waste

5/24 Apparel Resources

Textile recycling, reuse missing from FTC’s Green Guides, group says

5/23 Waste Adv. Magazine

American Circular Textiles Group, Politically in Fashion and UpWest Urges FTC to Focus on Textile Reuse and Recycling in Green Guidelines Review

5/23 Retail Dive

Textile recycling, reuse missing from FTC’s Green Guides, group says

5/22 Vogue Business

Call for anti-greenwashing guides to include textile reuse and recycling

5/1 Multichannel Merch.

Circularity and Recommerce: ACT Paving the Way

4/21 Bollyside

US Legislation Urged to Address ‘Gaps’ in Circular Fashion Industry

4/21 Apparel Resources

Calls for US legislation to fill ‘gaps’ in circular fashion

4/21 Just Style

Calls for US legislation to fill ‘gaps’ in circular fashion

4/20 TexFashion

Terms and Definitions for Circular Fashion Need to be Standarised, says American Circular Textiles Group

4/20 Sourcing Journal

Coalition Including H&M Champions Circular Fashion as ‘Economic Empowerment’

4/20 Scrap Monster

Amerian Circular Textiles Group Calls for New Policies to Address Waste in the Fashion Industry

4/20 EcoTextile News

Report calls for new textile waste policies

4/19 WasteAdvantage

American Circular Textiles Group Calls for New Policies to Address Waste in the Fashion Industry

4/19 WWD

Inside Zara, Lululemon Drops for Earth Month, Circular Fashion Policy News: Short Takes

10/6 Just Style

US government urged to embrace textile circularity in procurement strategy

9/15 Apparel Resources

Global thrust on ‘proper’ management of textile waste

9/11 Vogue Business

The Vogue Business 100 Innovators: Sustainability thought leaders

9/8 Sourcing Journal

California’s Fight Against Garment Worker Wage Theft is Headed Nationwide

8/8 Apparel Resources

Coalition urges action on US textile waste

8/7 Just Style

H&M, thredUP coalition pressure US environment agency to combat textile waste

9/11 Ecotextile News

Briefing sheds light on critical sustainable fashion issues

9/11 Apparel Resources

US fashion industry leaders convene to propose ethical, sustainable policy solutions

10/6 Sourcing Journal

US Fashion Policy: ‘Move Fast and Break Things’

10/6 Sourcing Journal

American Circular Textiles Coalition Urges Biden Administration to Prioritize Sustainable Products, Services

10/10 Portugal Textil

ACT calls for circular textiles in the US

10/9 Apparel Resources

ACT urges Biden Administration to include textiles in sustainable procurement rule

10/11 Common Share

American Circular Textiles Urges Biden to Procure Sustainable Textile Practices