"Sports company Puma has introduced a new shoebox design which will save 2800 tonnes of cardboard every year, as part of its sustainability strategy to make a positive environmental impact across its ...
"Transforming our current consumption models, from “take-make-dispose,” to a circular one where companies provide products as a service, can power economic growth and competitiveness with increased po ...
"Sustainable fashion initiative Junk Kouture, which challenges students aged 13-18 to create bespoke garments using only recycled materials, has launched in the UK following success in Ireland which h ...
"MPs from across the political spectrum have called on the government to ban the sale and import of real animal fur in Britain, in the first fur debate since the UK left the EU. All 18 of the MPs who ...
"The Karanganyar Environmental Service (DLH) has given 110 companies a stern warning pollution in the Solo River, and has obliged them to repair the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). [...] The 11 com ...
"Seven textile and garment enterprises located in Tien Giang province have petitioned the Prime Minister, the People's Committee of Tien Giang province, and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association ...
"According to Vu Duc Giang - Chairman of the Vietnam Textile and Garment Association, the lack of human resources will be a huge challenge for the business community when the economy reopens. He estim ...
"Tripartite discussions on the 2022 minimum wage for workers in the garment, textile and footwear sectors were set to begin on September 14. According to industry observers, the employers are planning ...
"Labour experts estimate that unemployment could rise by another 200,000 by the end of the year due to a series of garment factory closures. [...] Nay Linn Aung, assistant secretary of the Myanmar Ind ...
"The BGMEA wants more time to repay stimulus loans, with leaders asking finance ministry Abdur Rauf Talukder if they can repay the loan in 36 installments instead of 18 at a meeting on Tuesday. [...] ...
"Instagram is awash with small brands promising that they are ethically made in Los Angeles. It’s a great marketing gimmick — most people assume that anything made in the United States is ethical. Giv ...
"Members cutting across party lines in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday complained about poor street lighting in Bengaluru, as the consortium that bagged the global tender in 2018 to replace 4.85 l ...
"Next time you put on that top fashion-brand garment made in Bangladesh, consider the workers who produced it. Are they still alive, despite wages below poverty level and unsafe working conditions? Or ...
"Some Chinese manufacturers have started canceling orders as COVID-related shipping delays have caused inventory to stack up. [...] Betty Chen, who manages garment factories and wholesale shops in Gua ...
"Around 84 per cent of the garment workers are concerned about the current state of Covid-19 in Bangladesh, according to a survey revealed today. South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem) and M ...
"Driven by the plight of shop workers forced to stand throughout their shifts, Tamil Nadu has followed Kerala in granting the right to sit at work Working conditions in the state’s many textile and cl ...
"The textile industry is often touted as one of the biggest polluters to the environment. The need of the hour is to provide complex solutions to the complex nature of the textile industry issues by i ...
"The R Collective launches their breakthrough RECIRCLE recycled silk knit capsule collection made from recycling luxury IP-sensitive silk fabrics, which otherwise are routinely incinerated, as this te ...
"Sri Lanka’s garment factory owners are going “above and beyond” to ensure they are operating in a way that is safe for employees to continue working. At a meeting held by the American Chamber of Comm ...
"Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now. There is good news for Bangladesh’s 4.5 million garment worke ...
