"Seemingly overnight, Pangaia’s Earth-centered mission swept into mainstream consciousness. [...] Just last week, Regeneration.VC launched a $45 million inaugural fund devoted to supercharging consume ...
"A pioneering agreement to protect freedom of association for garment workers in Myanmar - which was halted because of the coup - could become the blueprint for other garment manufacturing countries, ...
"NGOs and the Cambodian government seek to make factory employees safer on the way to work, but transportation options are limited. [...] Road accidents involving garment worker transportation remains ...
"Ultimately, the best leather is that which lasts just long enough. “We need some form of tanning to make hide usable, but we need to develop more nuance around the longevity we’re aiming for,” says B ...
"Microplastic pollution has been discovered lodged deep in the lungs of living people for the first time. The particles were found in almost all the samples analysed. The scientists said microplastic ...
"Precious material was reduced to ashes when fire engulfed a cotton factory in the limits of Dijkot police station. According to a police spokesman, fire erupted in a cotton factory situated at Sammun ...
"A fire broke out at a private cotton cotton mill near Annur in Coimbatore district, destroying several lakhs of rupees worth of cotton. Fortunately casualties were avoided." ...
"“The future is now” idiom is realized with the opening of an ultra-modern new garment facility by Artistic Milliners, a vertically integrated denim manufacturer, which takes form as a high-tech, sust ...
"British fashion brand Celtic & Co has partnered with secondhand apparel specialist Thrift+ to offer its customers the chance to donate unwanted clothing." ...
"Outdoor apparel brand Merrell has launched a new footwear take-back and resale initiative across North America, with the ambition of saving more than 300,000 pairs of shoes from landfill." ...
"A worker at Chea Sinat Garment complained to the Ministry of Labor about her illegal dismissal because she was a member of a union on the grounds that she was unemployed while the company continued t ...
"The International Finance Corporation (IFC) supported 10 suppliers in the garment and apparel sector in 2019 and 2020 to save energy consumption by nearly 20% and water by almost 30%. Local suppliers ...
"Since 01 January 2022, it is forbidden to destroy unsold non-food products. But if the arrival of this law is beneficial in the fight against waste, it cannot overshadow the work requited to reduce u ...
"Yu is 40 years old this year. He came out of the factory in 2014, bought a truck with his income from working for many years, and started to engage in freight business in Humen, Dongguan. His main cu ...
"A sweater factory called Fashionit in Dhaka's Ashulia has laid off 110 workers and declared an indefinite shutdown. The manager of the company Abdul Malek has claimed the workers were laid off becaus ...
"Urmi Group, a garment exporter, has launched five selling points in five of its factories to relieve the hassle of marketing to 14,000 workers during Ramadan. Workers are able to buy essential commod ...
"Labor policy experts stressed the need to move from paying workers’ wages in cash to paying them digitally, to ensure that they receive them in full, and to ensure that some groups, particularly wome ...
"A number of business sectors in Jordan are still ignoring the application of the minimum wage despite the high burden of living, inflation and the high prices that have affected various commodities, ...
"MIRUM, a plant-based material by American firm Natural Fiber Welding, has stepped into the footwear industry this week, making its international debut with two product launches with global footwear c ...
"Reducing plastic waste is a winning issue for consumers. With so many examples of early success and ROI, there’s no better time to join the movement by committing to reduce plastic pollution and limi ...
