"Luke Haverhals wants to change how yoga pants are made. Most performance fabrics used in athletic clothing, like Spandex, are made from synthetic fibers—plastic, essentially. Those plastics are probl ...
2021
"President Arif Alvi has approved the civil award Tamgha-e-Shujaat for Malik Adnan – the person who tried to save the Sri Lankan manager in the Sialkot lynching incident which shocked the nation. [... ...
"Long-standing problems faced by the migrant labourers inside the Kitex labour camp probably led to the violent clash on Christmas Eve. The violence that erupted on Christmas Eve in the labour camp of ...
"The government working group studying the phenomenon of mass-fainting in workplaces has identified the major causes of these incidents, which are prone to occurring in factory settings. So far this y ...
"Ethiopia's trade ministry said on Monday it is unhappy with the Biden administration’s decision to revoke duty-free access for the country's exports. The US terminated on December 23rd Ethiopia's eli ...
"Ethiopia’s duty-free export access to the U.S. has been revoked by President Joe Biden due to its failure to meet the requirements, according to the White House. The action comes after 13 months of c ...
"Andreas Fellenz and Yvonne Heinen-Foudeh agreed to focus on “clothing / fashion” as a range of topics for a tête-à-tête covering the most pressing questions along the entire textile supply chain thro ...
"The traditional company Gebr. Elmer & Zweifel and its brand for organic cotton textiles Cotonea produce regenerative energy, and not in short supply. A third of the total kilowatt hours is surplus an ...
"The police on Monday arrested 26 more migrant workers employed by garment major Kitex Group for the alleged attack on a police team and the torching of a police vehicle on Christmas night in Kochi. [ ...
"Eight workers of a textile mills (Interloop) were injured when their bus overturned on Monday. Rescue 1122 reported the bus was transporting night-shift workers from the mill at Khurrianlwala to thei ...
"A massive fire broke out at a garment factory located near the Yasmin Chowrangi in Karachi's Sindh Industrial Trading Estate early Tuesday morning. [...] At 3pm, SAMAA TV reported that the fire has b ...
"Material worth lakhs of rupees are reported to have been destroyed in an early morning fire at a footwear manufacturing unit at Kolathara in Kozhikode district on Tuesday, December 28, 2021. However, ...
"Large European fashion brands, including Spanish, use viscose and leather linked to deforestation in the Amazon and Borneo due to the lack of traceability of raw materials and gaps in European regula ...
"Big retailers are breaking California law and misleading consumers by selling plastic shopping bags bearing language and symbols that falsely suggest the bags can be recycled, a state-appointed commi ...
"As the year comes to a close, Olivia Petter reflects on progressions – and shortcomings – within the sustainable fashion sector. [...] “The apparel market is growing and expected to reach £67 billion ...
"An abundance of waste Once the cynosure of apparel stores, clothes of every shape, size and colour lie discarded in a heap at a Dry Waste Collection Centre in South Bengaluru. Picking up a branded ha ...
"“This bill [SB 62, the Garment Worker Protection Act] was bold, historic, and deeply important for garment workers across the world, as well as people that advocate for them,” Nuncio says. “We took o ...
"Sweaters colored with leaves, nutshells or beetroot are selling well. The Earthcolors of the Swiss chemical company Archroma are currently turning the fashion industry inside out. There are three sur ...
"HSBC, Walmart and CDP are teaming up to unlock more financing for Walmart suppliers. The catch? The suppliers must set validated science-based targets for emissions reductions and meet certain perfor ...