"The fire that broke out in the chimney of a textile factory in Bursa was extinguished with the intervention of firefighters. The fire occurred in a textile factory operating in the central Nilüfer di ...
2021
Vietnam Social Security has produced a list of companies failing to pay social insurance premiums for employees, seriously affecting the legitimate rights and interests of employees. Included in the l ...
"SBTi’s science-based Net-Zero Standard launches today to provide a credible and independent assessment of corporate net-zero target setting and enable companies to align their near- and long-term cli ...
"Always looking for staff, Guy Cotten, in Trégunc, has been offering “Operational preparation for collective employment” since 2014; a system to train employees who, for the most part, discover the wo ...
"About one in every three pairs of jeans in the world comes from Xintang [near Dongguan, Guangzhou], which is called the "Cowboy Capital" [Ed's note: in Chinese, jeans are called 牛仔裤 - niuzaiku, or 'c ...
"For an industry considered creative and cutting-edge, fashion is woefully late to the party when it comes to cleaning up its global climate pollution. Fashion contributes 5% to 8% of all global emiss ...
"Today, the European Commission adopted a proposal to protect human health and the environment from some of the most harmful chemicals in waste - Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). The proposal tig ...
"Intermix, a US-based women fashion retailer, has announced the launch of its Intermix for Good Tour, a nationwide sustainability effort that combines reducing waste through denim recycling and bringi ...
"To tackle the critical issue of fast fashion at COP26, Associate Professor Helen Powell from LSBU has called for: Greater transparency by clothing brands, potentially enforced by government, about th ...
"Watch my interview with Associate Professor Helen Powell from London South Bank University (LSBU) about fashion fashion and climate change. She defends a new approach is urgently needed to tackle the ...
""The Net-Zero Standard gives companies a clear blueprint on how to bring their net-zero plans in line with the science, which is non-negotiable in this decisive decade for climate action. Because we ...
"Fashion lacks urgency when it comes to the climate emergency, according to newly revealed data on 2,500 brands’ environmental track records. Key stats based on Good On You’s brand ratings—published h ...
"In order to change the end result, it’s best to start at the very beginning. There’s no doubt the fashion and textile industry is one of the world’s greatest polluters. Time and time again we see sta ...
"With brands increasingly engaging in social action campaigns and leveraging their influence to be “purpose-led,” the time has come to ask a couple of big questions: Is this a viable strategy, and how ...
"Patagonia stopped all paid advertising on Facebook platforms in June 2020 because they spread hate speech and misinformation about climate change and our democracy. We continue to stand by that boyco ...
"The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has announced its Garment-to-Garment Recycle System research project (G2G) has won the Gold Award of the 2020 Hong Kong Green Innovat ...
"Kontoor Brands, a global lifestyle apparel company with a portfolio led by iconic consumer brands, Wrangler and Lee, has announced an expansion of its water-saving manufacturing program: Indigood Fac ...
"For this week’s blog, we will provide an update on the core data from our respondents in Bangladesh. We continued to keep up with the garment workers’ lives as they go to work, earn money, use that m ...
"A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday proposed an amendment to an annual defense policy bill that would impose a diplomatic boycott of China's Winter Olympics – less than 100 days away – am ...
"Do you see a rise in nearshoring for the apparel/fashion industry as a result of the pandemic? Is Latin America benefitting out of it? Amid COVID-19, shipping crisis, and US-China tariff war, US fash ...