"The Global Organic Textile Standard's head of marketing tells Treehugger why the standard has developed such an excellent reputation over 20 years. If you read labels when buying new clothes (and hop ...
"The message from COP 27 was unequivocal – climate change is THE number 1 priority for mankind. In textiles, I’d agree that this is also a very high priority, but we also must take a holistic view and ...
"UNESCO calls water pollution one of the main challenges facing societies, with 2 million tonnes of sewage entering the world’s water each day. Oxyle wants to help solve the crisis with a new wastewat ...
"COP15, this year’s UN Biodiversity Conference, is seeing heightened involvement from fashion companies. Here’s how they’re showing up. Kering, LVMH, L’Occitane, Natura and H&M are all in Montreal thi ...
"Fashion reached several sustainability milestones this year, but there’s growing pressure for the industry to make real progress, not just announce its intentions to do so." ...
"Capri Holdings Limited (NYSE:CPRI), a global fashion luxury group, today published its 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, highlighting the company’s work related to environmental sust ...
"Carbios (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB) (Paris:ALCRB), a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastics and textiles, today publishe ...
"PET recycling innovator Carbios has today published its inaugural sustainability report, in which it details several environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets." ...
"Work-related stress (WRS) is a growing problem around the world that affects the health and well-being of employees. However, evidence of work-related stress in Ethiopia, particularly among garment i ...
"Companies now queue up to promote their sustainability credentials. The website for Tesco, for example, one of the biggest companies by revenue in the UK, is loaded with phrases like “local community ...
"Most of these factories and warehouses do not even have proper electrical wiring systems,” said a state fire services department official who refused to be named." ...
"A seven-year-old girl was raped in insecure accommodation at a factory producing clothes for Tesco in Thailand while her mother sewed F&F jeans late in the evening, it has been revealed. Her mother s ...
"Hundreds of factories surround the border city of Mae Sot in the far west of Thailand. It is so close to Myanmar that at times the bombs of the civil war can be heard from its centre. Almost all the ...
"The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) and the Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (TEXPROCIL) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and will endeavour to promote the branding ...
"Pangaia, a materials science and fashion company, has received B Corp certification, a status that it meets B Lab’s system in purpose and profit." ...
"US startup Protein Evolution (PEI) is to work with fashion brand Stella McCartney in a bid to demonstrate the potential of its enzyme-based technology to recycle synthetic textiles." ...
"Workers are facing their worst nightmares this year especially in the apparel industry which is facing huge setbacks as employees are forced to quit with no allowances and limited workdays. The indus ...
"Crony Group has set up a ‘fair price shop’ at its factory premises to sell daily commodities at a discounted rate for some 10,000 workers. The move came in collaboration with Apon Wellbeing Ltd and t ...
"Singapore recycled just 4 per cent of its textile waste last year. CNA explores how old clothes can be reused and recycled to reduce fashion waste. [...] Cloop founder Jasmine Tuan, whose social ente ...
"Vu Duc Giang, Chairman of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) and AFTEX President for the 2021-2022 tenure, said facing intertwined opportunities and challenges in the global market, ...
