"Bestseller has launched the first clothing range to be made with Swedish wood pulp supplier Södra’s ‘OnceMore’ blend of ‘sustainably’ sourced raw materials and recycled textiles. " ...
2022
"American brand with Icelandic roots, Katla, is releasing its regeneration collection powered by seaweed. [...] While conditions vary, sugar kelp typically grows up to 5 centimeters per day in ideal c ...
"Consumer and regulatory demands for more sustainable clothing and textiles are growing and the fashion industry is rising to the challenge. Now Novozymes offers biopolishing for manmade cellulosic fi ...
"Levi Strauss and H&M Group rank among the top five companies in The BoF Sustainability Index 2022, but the high-street segment also contains the annual assessment’s lowest-scoring company with no poi ...
"Gesture announced at Copenhagen sustainability summit earns praise – and some cries of ‘greenwashing.’" ...
""We’re at an inflection point as an industry, where sustainability is evolving from a ‘nice-to-have’ to a ‘must-have’ business imperative; a point at which one’s greenline is becoming every bit as im ...
"Recover, a leading materials science company and recycled cotton fibre producer which is headquartered in Spain, has reaffirmed its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as it active ...
"Technologies to make sustainable textiles exist today and it is only a matter of scaling them up, collaboration across the value chain is crucial to fast-track innovation, and replacing polyester wit ...
"Firefighters who suffered heavy casualties during a fire at a shipping container depot in southern Bangladesh over the weekend were unaware of the presence of chemical drums, which caused a series of ...
"[According to the BGMEA] garments burned in the Chittagong fire were produced by 70 factories for foreign brands. The brands include H&M, Gap, Target, and C&A. [...] H&M, a Swedish-based buyer, has r ...
"Recently, at a seminar on promoting gender equality and economic recovery after the pandemic, Ms. Do Hong Van, Acting Head of Women's Department, Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, said workers ...
"Planet Water Foundation (a non-profit organization that helps to solve the global shortage of clean water through the implementation of sanitation education programs) and Hung Yen Knitting & Dyeing ( ...
"Background Work-related stress (WRS) is becoming an alarmingly growing public health concern worldwide. Due to globalization and changes in working conditions, people in low-income countries face gro ...
"Labour Rights There is no trade union in industry and garments in Bangladesh. Trade unions are being formed somewhere under the pressure of American and European countries but they are not being allo ...
"With globalisation, the world saw new interconnectivity. Similarly, with structural adjustment, the capitalist system/market started growing in India. The garment industry was also one of them, which ...
"TrusTrace has partnered with Fashion Revolution and Fashion For Good on its Traceability Playbook, hoping to drive progress across the industry." ...
"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said readymade garment factory workers are being instigated to stage protests and warned that instability in the export-focused sector will lead to closures. “[Garmen ...
"The immediate future of the global supply chain rests on a bargaining table in San Francisco, where the union representing all West Coast dockworkers is hashing out a new contract with the assembled ...
"On Sunday, members of the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) and Home-Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) in Karachi took to the streets to protest unbridled inflation and economically unfair ...
"A new textile reuse group counting fashion’s resale and rental pioneers aims to tackle circular policy." ...