Camira confronts the textile waste mountain with Professor Becky Earley at CDW 2025
Leading textile designer and manufacturer, Camira, will welcome circular economy researcher, award-winning sustainable designer and author, Professor Becky Earley to Clerkenwell Design Week this year.
On 21st May 2025, Professor Earley, a creative researcher with more than 25 years of experience in sustainable and circular textile design, will deliver two insightful talks to an audience at Camira’s London showroom. The session will address the global textile waste crisis and explore how circular design solutions can combat the escalating issue.
Professor Becky Earley commented: “I’m excited to have the opportunity to share my insights during Clerkenwell Design Week 2025. By coincidence, I began my design career 30 years ago this month, just down the road, in a studio on Brick Lane. The area has changed in too many ways to count, in these intervening years.
“We used to see textile waste on the street. That’s not so common these days; now the waste is a lot more hidden, and a lot greater in scale. Tackling the waste mountain is such a crucial focus for everyone in the industry to commit to. We can’t afford to waste resources anymore; we simply can’t afford the climate and social impacts it creates. It’s time to design our way out of this mess.”
Drawing on her extensive experience in sustainable design research, Professor Earley will present a series of meta themes for the interiors industry, discussing how design can play a critical role in confronting the growing challenge of textile waste. The talk will challenge designers and decision-makers to think differently and embrace the role of design as a force for environmental change.
Director of Marketing and Sustainability at Camira, Ian Burn said: “We’re incredibly excited to welcome Professor Earley to Clerkenwell Design Week to to help raise awareness about the magnitude of the textile waste issue and emphasise the urgent need for the industry to take action.
“Camira has long been at the forefront of sustainable textile innovation, having launched our first recycled fabrics in the 1990s. In 2025, we are redoubling our efforts toward addressing the growing textile waste mountain and finding new ways to mitigate its environmental impact.”
The event follows the launch of Camira’s latest circular textile introductions, including Lucia T2T; crafted entirely from 100% textile-to-textile recycled waste sourced from the apparel industry and ReSKU 2.0; a fabric made from a blend of Camira’s own textile manufacturing waste and renewable flax.
To register for Becky Earley’s talk on 21st May, visit Eventbrite for the 11am or 2.30pm session.
To find out more about Camira’s move into textile-to-textile recycling, visit the London showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week, May 20-22, 2025.