"We’re now in 2022 – Happy Belated New Year! – and flying cars haven’t happened just yet, high-tech architecture is a thing, and AI domination is unfolding as we speak. We didn’t, however, think that ...
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"Yesterday, 7 January 2022, Dabindu held its first stakeholder meeting of the year in Vavuniya and Kilinochchi with the participation of representatives from the Labor Department, Medical Health Offic ...
"New York is taking a big step in that direction with The Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. Introduced by The New Standard Institute and sponsored by senator Alessandra Biaggi and ...
"A historic bill in New York is aiming to hold major fashion brands in New York accountable on sustainability and worker's rights. Backed by multiple environmental and human rights advocacy groups, th ...
"Analyzing climate responses from Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Vipshop, Suning.com, NetEase, and Xiaomi, Greenpeace East Asia's latest ranking of China's e-commerce companies showed major shortcomings ...
"Analyzing climate change-related policies and actions from Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Vipshop, Suning.com, NetEase, and Xiaomi, Greenpeace East Asia’s latest ranking of China’s e-commerce companies ...
"A few years ago animal welfare organizations demonstrated against the sale of fur in front of the Breuninger stores. Then the premium retailer from Stuttgart dared to join forces with animal rights a ...
"Sure, Martijn van der Zee knows the saying about a drop of water on a hot stone. In 2022, the first year of production, van der Zee's employer C&A wants to produce 400,000 pairs of jeans with 100 emp ...
"Consumers are no longer looking at brand names and elite status, rather, they're diving deeper into the companies values, mission, and environmental impact. Today, more than ever, we are focused on t ...
"Despite legal manoeuvres designed to block cotton sourced from the Chinese region from entering the fashion supply chain, and specifically the US market, problems with transparency mean some companie ...
"Prices up 31% in first three months of the 2021-22 cotton season. Textile value chain is feeling the heat of spiralling cotton prices. The ginned cotton price for 29 mm variety, which was quoted ₹55, ...
"In a new sustainability effort, Rent the Runway is dedicating resources to collect “unwearable” discarded fast fashion items and recycling them during the month of January, according to WWD. Customer ...
"The human and labour rights issues are of critical importance for the readymade garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh. This is mainly because the sector alone provides the largest share of manufacturing ...
"The UK government is facing legal action over its decision to keep using a Malaysian company accused of using forced labour as a supplier of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the NHS. Lawyers at ...
"Following Renewcell’s recent decision to sign multi-year purchasing agreements with European textile sorters, the Swedish textile waste-to- fibre supplier has now teamed up with a Chinese yarn produ ...
"Lifestyle brand Weird Fish has added environmental metrics to organic cotton-based apparel on its website in a bid to demonstrate the material’s sustainability credentials. Customers' browsing the co ...
"Bangladesh commerce minister Tipu Munshi recently sought generalised scheme of preferences (GSP) support from Germany for his country to face the challenges after it graduates from the least develope ...
"Monforts textile technologist Jonas Beisel will outline the benefits of the company’s Econtrol continuous dyeing process during the next free-to-attend VDMA Textile Machinery Webtalk which takes plac ...
"Textile manufacturer Texon's cellulose leather alternative Texon Vogue has been certified as free of animal products by the Vegan Society. Texon Vogue, which can now carry the Vegan Trademark, is a w ...
"The National Environment Management Authority has suspended operations of production lines of Nytil that release affluent discharge. [...] Speaking to Kfm, the authority’s executive director Dr Akank ...