"The shoe retailer Clarks is in a dispute with a trade union over the alleged use of agency workers to cover a strike at its warehouse in Somerset. The Community union has complained to government abo ...
"Workers at 37 Aldi stores in the French-speaking region of Wallonia in Belgium held a second strike last Wednesday. This followed action the previous Saturday, over “unreasonable” productivity demand ...
"The BGMEA President gave closing remarks at the 36th IAF World Fashion Convention held in Antwerp, Belgium on November 8 where he apprised the audience of the current status of Bangladesh’s RMG indus ...
"Launched in April of this year, Textiles 2030: UK Sustainable Textiles Action Plan has been named the Best Environmental or Sustainable Programme by Corporate Engagement Awards 2021 which recognises ...
"Despite its significant contribution to the climate crisis, fashion has been surprisingly absent from the conversation at this year’s COP26 summit. A quick comb through our daily live coverage of the ...
"The other day I was scrolling my way through twitter, as I do, and up pops a post from PETA (an organisation I admit I'm already not a fan of) talking about how the "future of fashion is here!". I wa ...
"Transparency has very quickly become one of the primary metrics upon which the fashion industry is measured, but are expectations evolving faster than the industry’s ability to execute? Cotton could ...
"Around 350,000 tonnes of clothes, with an estimated value of £140m, go to landfill every year in the UK. Fashion brands are finding ways of fighting the climate crisis by tackling issues at the heart ...
"Some 39,000 tons of discarded clothes end up in the mountainous Atacama desert in Chile each year So much clothing arrives in Chile that traders cannot hope to sell it and no one is willing to pay th ...
"We don't consume clothing the way we did just a few decades ago. Since the rise of fast fashion, the industry produces more than 90 million metric tons of waste each year and consumes nearly 80 trill ...
"The Responsible Business Coalition, Accenture and Vogue came together to create the Impact Index, a logo designed to tell customers how to better understand their clothing’s sustainability credential ...
"Arriving like a rocket from China! With a huge range of unashamedly cheap items of clothing and an aggressive social media presence, online clothing retailer Shein (pronounced “she-in”) is catching u ...
"Workers from a number of garment factories in the capital have demanded the signing and implementation of ILO Convention 190 to end 'violence and harassment' in the workplace. They made the demand at ...
"Workers for some suppliers of the Chinese fashion giant Shein are doing excessive overtime, a non-governmental organisation has suggested. A number of staff across six sites in Guangzhou were found t ...
"Dr María Mendiluce is CEO of We Mean Business Coalition. Dr. Gerry Murphy is chair of Burberry. The world is waking up to a stark reality: We cannot solve the climate crisis unless we also solve the ...
"A Shanghai-based organization focusing on sustainable fashion launched the report at the COP26 climate conference. China’s fashion-savvy consumers, though environmentally conscious, are still conflic ...
"Responsible purchasing practices a priority, not a “nice to have” when times are good. Findings from the 2021 Better Buying Purchasing Practices Index reveal that, despite the huge challenges of COVI ...
"The world is closing in on two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that upended global supply chains and brought purchasing practices to the forefront of the industry’s consciousness. And ...
"The Leather Working Group (LWG) trade body has announced the launch of what it describes as the largest lifecycle assessment (LCA) study ever carried out into the leather industry. It sees the LCA st ...
"We look at the implications of extended producer responsibility (EPR) and the EU’s Waste Directive in the fourth episode in our five-part audio documentary on the textile-to-textile recycling industr ...
