"Less than a week after announcing a major leadership change, Foot Locker Inc. released its 2021 Fiscal Year Impact Report, which offers a look into its environmental, social and governance (ESG) effo ...
2022
"Footlocker this week unveiled plans to curb its carbon emissions, pledging to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Some would say it is not a very ambitious target, considering it has 2 ...
"As demand for transparency, sustainability and circularity from consumers continues to rise, retailers and manufacturers are ramping up their innovations to keep up. Most advancements revolve around ...
"The non-profit group Environment Rhode Island announced Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Kenyon Industries, Inc., and its parent company, Brookwood Companies Incorporated, for alleged vi ...
"Inflation-weary shoppers are cutting back sharply on clothing purchases, prompting US retailers to slash prices in order to clear inventory off the racks. [...] This week, Victoria’s Secret, Urban Ou ...
"Swedish textile recycler Renewcell has announced that its new flagship factory - billed as the world’s first commercial scale 100 per cent textile-to-textile recycling plant - is now up and running." ...
"The report has been in the works for three years and promised for months but has not been published for unclear reasons. The UN human rights chief said on Thursday that she is still aiming to release ...
"This morning there was a fire in a shoe warehouse in the Lempira neighborhood in the city of San Pedro Sula, department of Cortés, northern Honduras." ...
"A new application using Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been launched today, to support garment and textile factories reduce their potential contribution to deforestation. This is an exciting collab ...
"A fire broke out here in a sofa cover manufacturing factory gutting merchandise worth lakhs, police said on Saturday. No one was reported hurt in the incident." ...
"Getting a package delivered is easy. Sending it back is not. Repacking, printing labels and shipping it back up to the seller is an increasingly familiar experience for online shoppers. In America 21 ...
"A jobs agency that supplies warehouse workers to fast fashion and high street brands repeatedly underpaid staff and deprived them of holiday pay, an Observer investigation has found. Workers hired on ...
"Denim is here to stay. No, literally—we're talking about the fact that textile waste takes up as much as 5 percent of all landfill space, according to the Council for Textile Recycling (CTR). With th ...
"Sound like science fiction? Companies like On, Pangaia, Zara and Lululemon are already experimenting with materials and dyes produced with captured carbon emissions and the new US climate bill could ...
"This week, Jessica Carroll asks the question: How sustainable is high-street retailer Next?" ...
"A fire broke out at a shoe factory in the Korangi Industrial Area on Sunday and caused damage worth millions of rupees. It took five fire engines three hours to control the blaze." ...
"In a significant assault on worker rights in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky last week signed into law legislation that deprives around 73 percent of workers of their right to union protection ...
"Fast-fashion company Shein recently reiterated its commitment to product safety after social media outcry over chemicals in the brand's clothes. Experts told Insider consumers many fashion brands use ...
"I did hope that after spending a few months in secondhand (albeit, designer) clothes, Gemma might think twice about immediately jumping into bed with a brand like PLT." ...
"With global e-commerce sales totaling $4.9 trillion in 2021—and forecasts suggesting this number will increase by 50% over the next four years—businesses are making their unboxing experience the focu ...