The Alliance for sustainable textiles is a multi-stakeholder initiative with around 150 members from business, politics and civil society. This corresponds to a market coverage (measured against turnover) of around 50%.

AVE has been an active member of the Alliance since 2015 with a view to improving conditions in worldwide textile production jointly with the most important players in the sector – from production of raw materials through to waste management. As coordinator speaking for business, AVE pools the interests of trading and industrial companies and represents them in specialist working groups.

The principle is simple:

On the basis of the Textile Alliance’s jointly defined objectives, all members work towards individual but binding and verifiable objectives which they progressively make more ambitious. This is complemented by support for good solutions with concrete Alliance initiatives in the production countries.