New Canopy partners include HeiQ
Materials innovation specialist HeiQ is one of 12 organisations to add their names to companies that have committed to initiatives set up by environmental non-profit Canopy.
Canopy says its Style and Pack4Good initiatives are in place to help address the climate and biodiversity crises through a commitment to keep ancient and endangered forests out of the cellulosic fibre and paper supply chains.
It said the new signatories take the total number of organisations supporting Style and Pack4Good to 547 and 403 respectively.
Founder and executive director of Canopy, Nicole Rycroft, said the new signatories added “significant momentum to global conservation efforts” and were helping to make the transition to lower-impact supply chains, moving away from ‘take, make, waste’.
On signing up to the Canopy Style initiative, HeiQ chief executive, Carlo Centonze, commented: “Canopy is our go-to partner to replace polyester with circular and sustainable cellulose feedstock for our HeiQ AeoniQ fibre. We must rapidly replace oil-based polyester in the textile industry because it is causing microplastics, global warming, landfill and ecosystem degradation.”
He said cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer in the world and the one best suited to replace polyester and that forests, as a potential cellulose feedstock, are also one of the most important solutions to climate change.
Approximately 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, one-third of the CO2 released from burning fossil fuels, is absorbed by forests every year, Carlo Centonze said. “We are losing forests at an alarming rate,” he warned. “Every year, around 10 million hectares of forests are destroyed. We need immediate action to increase forests again.”
Image: Canopy.
