"The Nature Benchmark assesses close to 400 companies across 8 industries, with the aspiration to increase to another 600 companies in the course of 2023. The benchmark provides publicly available, ev ...
"First of its kind research highlights nature is a blind spot for major companies despite its importance for their operations and people. The World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA) Nature Benchmark asses ...
"Chinese ultra-fast fashion retailer Shein is earmarking US$15m over the next three to four years to upgrade hundreds of factories across its supply chain." ...
"Today, eBay announces a new partnership with clothing resale, sanitisation and repair experts ACS to expand the online marketplace’s second hand offering and help reduce waste in the fashion industry ...
"Toray Industries, Inc., announced today that it will begin selling nylon 6 chemically recycled fiber (N6CR) yarns, textiles, and other products in Japan from March 2023. These offerings will apply To ...
"Textile dye innovator Stony Creek Colors has secured US$4.8 million in funding led by long-standing partners Levi’s and Lewis & Clark AgriFood." ...
"In late May, Amazon opened its first clothing store in a sprawling suburban mall outside Los Angeles. Like most physical retailers these days, Amazon Style, as it's called, aims to bring a little som ...
"The case stands as a stark reminder of how the rise of celebrity endorsers of corporate sustainability efforts has created risks for both the companies and the bold-faced names serving as their pitch ...
"Just over a year ago, in September 2021, Irish textile discounter Primark unveiled a far-reaching sustainability strategy aimed at reducing textile waste, halving CO2 emissions throughout the company ...
"Farmers in Switzerland have revived an old local tradition of silk production. First, they had to get reacquainted with breeding silkworms and growing mulberry trees for them to feed on" (28:38-minut ...
"Gabriela Hearst, Bethany Williams, Priya Ahluwalia, Conner Ives and Marine Serre share the gong for curbing fashion’s environmental impact and role-modelling more sustainable business models. Here’s ...
"Several hundred workers have been protesting on the road since 4 pm on Monday (December 5). However, at around 7:30 in the evening, after the discussion of the workers' representatives with the owner ...
"Burned-out white-collar workers aren’t the only ones who have embraced “quiet quitting,” a phrase popularized on TikTok that describes doing just enough at the office to avoid getting pink-slipped in ...
"As the decarbonization trend accelerates, fossil energy stakeholders have been counting on petrochemicals to maintain a foothold in the global economy. Synthetic fabrics offer one such niche. However ...
"Resale isn’t an option for most intimates, so established brands and startups are experimenting with solutions to keep underwear out of landfills. [...] Los Angeles-based Kent says there is. For two ...
"Italian luxury goods group Salvatore Ferragamo said on Monday it will offer part of its employees 1,000 euros ($1,055) each in shopping vouchers to help them cope with inflation." ...
"Last year, we released analysis showing how projected increases in flooding, extreme heat and humidity will affect workers and production in some of fashion’s top sourcing hubs: Bangladesh, Cambodia ...
"A Swedish industry authority has published a position paper which calls on the EU’s Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles to go further if it’s to successfully decarbonise the sector." ...
"The Lenzing Group, the world’s leading supplier of sustainably produced specialty fibers, and Renewcell, the Swedish textile-to-textile recycling pioneer, have today signed a multi-year supply agreem ...
"Are you more likely to buy sustainably if it’s more ‘affordable’? Writer Sophie Benson explores the phenomenon of conscious labels adopting buy now, pay later schemes and what it means for the sustai ...
