About the Event

Join the City and County of Los Angeles for a FREE textile upcycling and recycling education event hosted by the City and County of Los Angeles, the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), and the LA Cleantech Incubator, funded by CalRecycle, LA Sanitation, and other sponsors, in collaboration with Afflare.co and Fashion is Outrageous, and the 100+ member working group.

The event will include keynote speakers, demonstrations, and interactive activities to learn about how the City, County, and State divert textiles from the landfill. The agenda features regional leaders in textile circularity who will provide concrete examples of how to upcycle or recycle unwanted textiles into new products. The morning speakers include participants from the LA Sanitation pilot project who recycled cotton waste into a domestic supply-chain for a fabric knitted in Los Angeles. Panelists will also discuss hard-to-recycle materials related to LA28 and other large events. The afternoon classroom activities explore partnerships, meet upcycling designers, feedstocks, and local service opportunities for textile repair, recycling, and other design considerations for textile circularity. There will be waste-side activities and design-side activities that bring the two industries together to close the loop on circularity.

Learn more about all three phases of the LA Sanitation Textile Recovery Pilot: calpsc.org/latextilehub

See exhibits from leaders in the textile industry, and opportunities to network and discuss textile recovery opportunities. Participants will walk away understanding the potential for textile circularity and recycling in California.

Location:

525 S Hewitt St Suite 150,

Los Angeles, CA 90013

Date:

June 10, 2026

Time:

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Cost:

FREE

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Event Sponsors

Exhibits and Activities

CPSC leads the state in unique waste management programs, including leading LA Sanitation's multi-year initiative on textile recovery. CPSC sponsored California's new Textile EPR law and leads pilot projects throughout the state. Stop by the table to see the recycled cotton fabric we developed with LASAN and other opportunities to process textile waste. It's a great model for circularity
- and LA28!

The City of Los Angeles generates 71,898 tons of textiles annually, representing about 6% of the landfill waste stream and 2% of recyclable waste stream, both of the commercial waste stream. The City of Los Angeles has long been committed to diverting textile waste and has pursued conceptual studies on textile waste since 2020, with major accomplishments in each phase. Stop by our table to see how the City prioritizes reuse, repair, and recycling of commercially generated textile waste.

Los Angeles County Public Works is one of the largest municipal public works agencies in the United States, providing vital 21st Century infrastructure and essential services to more than 10 million people across a 4,000-square-mile regional service area. They are the zone administrators for CalRecycle's Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) program. Stop by the table to see if the RMDZ program can offer your business technical assistance or access to a low interest rate loan.

Cofounded by Gabrielle Miller and Kestrel Jenkins, Fashion Is Outrageous (FIO) develops educational materials and interactive experiences, evidence-based data insights, reports and creative art-driven dissemination across research and policy to spaces and digital media. FIO is currently delivering programmatic planning for educational events on SB 707 and working on universities and government funded research packages. FIO is leading several interactive activities, including mapping participants, designer discussions, and audio focus groups.

Agenda

9:30 AM

9:45 AM

10:15 AM

11:00 AM

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Refreshments and networking

Welcome: City of Los Angeles

Event Overview and Intro to Textile Recovery in CA by the

California Product Stewardship Council

Panel: Recycled Cotton Fabric - Waste Sourced from LA- Knitted in LA

Featuring: LASAN, Looptworks, Laguna Fabric

Panel: Textile Opportunities for LA28

Featuring: Working Group Members

Message from Sponsors and afternoon overview

Onsite lunch sponsored by

Classroom Activities and Interactive Experiences:

Hot seat area: exhibit tables and art activations

Featuring: Participation mapping, government programs, and more

Classroom 1: Waste-side of circularity presentations

Featuring: Waste hauler audits, Textile EPR guidance, and more

Classroom 2: Design-side of circularity fireside chats

Featuring: Fireside chats with designers, upcyclers, and more

Classroom 3: Meet the Statewide EPR program operator

Featuring: Producer onboarding and Q&A

Media room: Community interviews

Featuring: Focus groups and interviews

Outside: Circular Fashion LA's Electric Truck

Featuring: BYO damaged items for repair, SWAG bag decoration, and more

2:00 PM

Event ends

Speakers

Speaker Bios

David Roshan

As a family-owned company operating over multiple generations, Laguna Fabrics has been supplying the market with trend-forward, high-quality knits with a fast turnaround for 35+ years. Laguna fabrics is participating in several textile sustainability pilots with LASAN/CPSC, Fibershed, and Accelerating Circularity.

Joanne Brasch

Dr. Joanne Brasch is the Director of Advocacy at the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), leading projects and policies that promote a circular economy using Product Stewardship and Extended Producer Responsibility. CPSC was the exclusive sponsor of SB707 - California's new Textile Recovery Program. CPSC has been leading textile recovery pilots with LA Sanitation and LA County since 2020.

Dr. Brasch is appointed by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to the California carpet advisory committee and holds the Vice Chair position. She holds a PhD in Textile Economics and Environmental Analysis from the University of California, Davis. She’s the former Chair of the American Association for Textile Chemists and Colorists California Chapter and sits on several academic external advisory boards around the Country. She made Waste360’s “40 under 40” list for 2021.

Contact Joanne at joanne@calpsc.org or via LinkedIn

Joey Pham

Joey Pham is the founder of Eorte brand, a clean tech company building circular infrastructure to eliminate textile waste from landfills and support the transition to a compliant, low-waste economy. He spent the better part of his career in the fashion industry, building and scaling brands and gaining a deep understanding of how products are made, moved, and ultimately discarded. Through that journey, he saw firsthand the amount of waste our industry creates—and it pushed him to rethink what responsibility looks like in business.

Today, as the founder of Eorte brand, Joey focused on turning that challenge into an opportunity—working to transform hotel textile waste into circular systems that create both environmental and economic value. His mission is simple: to prove that sustainability isn’t a trade-off, but a better way to build—one that supports our communities, reduces waste, and moves the industry forward with intention.

Kestrel Jenkins

Kestrel Jenkins is an internationally trained journalist, Fulbright scholar and podcasting trailblazer. With over 17 years of working in storytelling, public speaking, writing, communication and digital media, Kestrel has a globally recognized voice, researching and communicating critical knowledge and advocacy in the fashion and sustainability space. She pushes the limits of storytelling, and leaned into podcasting before it became a cultural phenomenon. Her podcast, Conscious Chatter, was the first to cover the depth and breadth of the international fashion industry, and has been downloaded over 1 million times with listeners across 115+ countries. She has hosted powerful interviews with key stakeholders, exploring how products, practices, and policy can accelerate innovation in fashion for good. Her past work coproducing the first “eco fashion show” at Mercedes-Benz with the GreenShows and leading sustainability & narrative for docu-series projects distinctly places her between the spaces of industry, media and education.

Gabrielle Miller

Gabrielle Miller has worked at the London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London for over ten years, both lecturing and at research centers including the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Centre for Circular Design. She has exceptional expertise in pedagogical innovation, and has published research on defining fashion tech as an emerging discipline. She co-developed an award-winning edtech Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) for the University of the Arts London. The reach and impact for the duration of the course was highly successful, reaching 90,037 learners in total from 144 countries (2018-2025). She won the Green Gown award for the ‘Next Generation of Learning and Skills’ (2018) – awards given to acknowledge institutions of higher education on their exceptional efforts towards sustainability. Her tenure as designer at prestigious fashion houses including Alexander McQueen and Givenchy, combined with leading fashion and sustainability for the design school at LCF, positions her uniquely at the intersection of industry and academia.

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