"A look at Singapore’s sustainable fashion landscape Singapore was no exception to this media drive towards sustainable fashion." ...
"This week, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition suspended the use of its product labels, employed by companies like H&M and Amazon, as concerns over greenwashing engulfed one of the industry’s top susta ...
"ETF Tekstil in Tuzla announced that it will stop production and close the factory on 30 July. The boss offered only 70 percent of the severance pay to the unemployed workers." [Ed's note: see entry f ...
"The Labor Confederation of Hai Duong province held a conference on dialogue, collective bargaining, and the signing of collective labor agreements for many of the textile and garment enterprises in t ...
"Current trends in designing, manufacturing and styling denim relay a sense of going back to the future as demand for vintage pieces soars." ...
"Leaders of Garments Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad on Friday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the garment factory owners to pay wage of June and festival allowance to the garment workers befor ...
"As a consequence of our addiction to fast fashion, Australia sends approximately 800,000 tonnes of textile waste to landfill each year and is the second-highest consumer of fabric per person in the w ...
"In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, our cotton expert Simon Ferrigno tells host Phil Berman why he’d like to see a parliamentary-style inquiry into widespread fraud in the organic cotton sector" ...
"SHEIN recently announced an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) fund giving US$50m over five years to support global causes such as textile waste management and circular economy initiatives. As pa ...
"The organisation will take aim at preserving craft in American fashion by educating consumers about the importance and quality of American artisans, drumming up interest in American brands, backing t ...
"Labour leaders, economists and lawyers unanimously demanded that the government should reconstitute the national wage board considering the soaring goods prices. Bangladesh Garments Workers’ Solidari ...
"Witnesses said that the workers of Intraco Fashion Limited and Intraco Design Limited started demonstration in the morning demanding arrears of May and festival allowances." [Ed's note: see entries i ...
"Cambodian labour unions have quoted $204-214 as the minimum wage for the textile, garment, footwear, bags and travel goods sectors in 2023—up from this year’s $194—ahead of negotiations this month am ...
"The National Trade Union Federation Pakistan (NTUF) and Home-Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) on Sunday organised a protest to raise their voice against the dismissal of more than 4,000 workers ...
"Weaknesses in the management of hazardous materials, including chemicals, led to the devastating explosion at the BM Depot in Sitakunda, Chattogram. This was revealed in the inquiry committee report ...
"Over 95 per cent of unskilled workers in Delhi are denied the minimum wage notified by the state government, a survey released on Monday by a civil society organisation has found. The survey, “Access ...
"Goods worth Rs30 million [$146,641] reduced to ashes when fire broke out in a garment factory in Model Town on Sunday. The fire broke out as a result of a boiler explosion in the factory, which engul ...
"Packaging sustainability is a high ranking theme across all sectors and the battle to reduce carbon emissions is an ongoing one. Senior global product line manager at Avery Dennison Caroline Hughes g ...
"In the production of leather goods, handbags and shoes, workers are exposed to high risks. They often only earn starvation wages and risk their health through unprotected contact with dangerous chemi ...
"European shoe retailers still take far too little responsibility for the human rights risks in their supply chains, as a study shows. When the wall of a clarifier in Ranipet, India, collapsed in 2015 ...
