"From fast fashion bans to "Fashion Act," these are the moments where sustainability saw major gains in 2022." ...
"The Italian Fashion Chamber has launched the second edition of “Fashion Deserves the World”, a scheme helping migrants and refugees enter the Italian fashion industry, in the areas of design and manu ...
"Florida-based fashion company Chico's FAS launched on Wednesday its 2021 Impact Report including environmental, social and governance (ESG) highlights and goals." ...
"The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has published a paper giving users of its Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) early access to the new version of the tool before its release next yea ...
"The minimum wage figure, which has been discussed in public for days, was announced by President Erdogan of the AKP as 8,506 TL. [...] Arzu Çerkezoğlu, Chairman of the Confederation of Turkish Revolu ...
"A garment factory named 'Adams Apparels' in Kalshi, Mirpur, Dhaka has been closed down without notice. Hundreds of workers staged a protest in front of the factory on Thursday as the company was shut ...
"A fire broke out due to an unknown reason in the conveyor belt of Dharamshi Laxman Popat Cotton near Pipaliya Char Road in Morbi. On being informed about the incident, the fire department team rushed ...
"Chinese officials and companies are letting COVID-positive people return to work in a bid to keep the economy running, despite a massive COVID surge that could be as large as a million cases a day. O ...
"Around 73% of garment workers in Bangladesh want new machines in their factories as they improve efficiency, make work easy and ensure better quality, a research has found." ...
"Myanmar factory labourers are being pushed to breaking point by rising commodity prices and the junta’s failure to raise a minimum wage that has stayed flat for five years." [Ed's note: see entry for ...
"It’s never too late to go to university — or to make the world a better place through sustainable business. Milah Wouters, 48, is doing that with Circuliar Katoen — translated to “circular cotton” — ...
"Recycling textiles is no easy feat, with industrial processes still in their early years. Yet, recyclers say a looming obligation for EU countries to collect and sort used textiles will help the nasc ...
"Fashion’s ephemeral nature might seem an odd bedfellow for the blockchain, an online ledger that’s designed to be permanent. But the industry is finding ways to harness it and other digital tools to ...
"It's time to wish our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – and to reflect on some of the stories which stood out for us – and for you – over the last 12 months." ...
"2022 started with promises from fashion brands to make real progress in reducing their impact on the environment. There were notable gains that laid a solid foundation for next steps. There’s still p ...
""La Samaritaine is a symbolic place representing wealth. A lot of employees here cannot allow themselves to buy what they sell," Amar Lagha, from the hard-left CGT union, told AFP." ...
"Since this summer, Spanish footwear brand Camper has been B Corp-certified and has launched a number of groundbreaking sustainability projects in recent months, from the introduction of recycled leat ...
"Uttarakhand can come out with its hemp policy soon. If media reports are to go by, the initial draft of the hemp policy is ready and has been sent to the legal department. The draft will be soon sent ...
"From innovative materials to regulatory crackdowns, 2022 was a year that pushed the fashion industry to rethink how it operates. ...
"Professor Tony Allan, an intellectual pioneer at King’s College London, first proposed the idea of virtual water— the water consumed during the process of production —to explain how Middle Eastern co ...
