This year is set to be a tipping point for fashion’s supply chains, as brands and suppliers race to comply with incoming legislation and meet 2025 sustainability goals.
Overproduction has been fashion’s constant companion for years. For a long time, overproduction was financially feasible due to (inhumanely) cheap raw materials, labour, and transport. Combined with high mark-ups, fashion found a way to make overproduction profitable, albeit at a great environmental expense.
As we usher in 2024, the fashion industry is embracing a significant shift towards sustainability, individuality, and innovation, marking a departure from the fast-fashion trends of the past. A
The Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment requires enhanced human resources and increased capacity to provide robust assistance to distressed migrant workers in destination countries
Interviews with 100+ workers in this January 2024 report by CCC Turkey shows that garment factories and their buyers left workers to fend for themselves after the devastating earthquake that hit Türkiye in February 2023. As most of them were not paid in full in the aftermath of the earthquake, workers had to return to their jobs out of financial necessity without having a safe place to live and before the factories they worked in had undergone any structural safety inspections.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner wants to streamline the Supply Chain Act and reduce bureaucracy.
Parley for the Oceans is launching an investment arm to support material innovation in a bid to secure a more sustainable future for fashon deisgn.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has been making efforts to improve the well-being of the garment workers in Bangladesh.
The Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Heng Sour called on all factory owners to participate in a national competition to promote a culture of harmony within factories under the theme ‘ Peaceful Community’ at the 16th meeting of the Textile, Garment, Footwear, and Travel Products Association of Cambodia on Saturday.
Sustainability in fashion is no longer an option – it’s become a requirement. Each decision made along the supply chain is a reflection of this growing priority. Our report reveals just what those changes look like.
As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold. Experts say tackling such obscene waste will require radical changes in production – and legislation
Positive news on the fashion industry’s commitment to creating a circular economy. A new study by eco firm Aquapak Polymers reveals 12% of sector businesses in the UK, US and Australia expect to be fully circular within one to two years, 34% within two to three years, and 31% within three to four years. A fifth expect to reach this goal in four to five years.
A special edition of the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor assesses the integrity of renewable electricity targets from 10 major companies in fashion and tech. The real GHG emission reduction impact of companies’ renewable electricity claims is often far less than implied.
Fashion isn’t doing enough to address forced labor, a new benchmark study has observed. In fact, if the industry was being graded on its efforts, as KnowTheChain did, it would receive a failing mark with an average of 21 out of 100 possible points.
Leaders of the Readymade Garments Industry Forum gathered in an open and interactive discussion session at Gulshan Club, Dhaka, ahead of the BGMEA election, focusing on the topic of RSC (RMG Sustainability Council).
Together with business consultancy Deloitte, global impact organisation Circle Economy Foundation has published its “Circularity Gap Report 2024” today, which highlights how the global circularity rate is currently falling from 9.1 percent to 7.2 percent despite the number of discussions, debates and articles related to the circular economy having almost tripled over the past five years.
In a candid conversation moderated by Sourcing Journal founder Edward Hertzman at Texworld New York City on Tuesday, experts discussed the uncertainty the industry faces in the year ahead.
Improving supply chain working conditions requires clarity of expectations and accountability on both sides.
Conditions mandatory to form trade unions will be eased through the upcoming amendment to Bangladesh Labour Act, in a bid to comply with recommendations from Western communities, particularly the European Union (EU) and the United States.
While the textile industry helps many across the state earn their livelihoods, the chemical effluents from the units affect the lives of people living in the vicinity. To address this, a team of faculty members at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT-W), has developed an environment-friendly hybrid wastewater treatment system for textile industry effluents.
