"In recent years, there's been an exciting increase in sustainable fashion legislation and reforms working to clean up this industry — from garment worker protections against wage theft to supply chai ...
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"The glue doesn't hold: Together with the Hamburg start-up Traceless, the online retailer Otto wanted to launch a shipping bag that consists of 100% plant-based material and can be completely composte ...
"Artificial intelligence is the latest tech trend to make waves across the globe. For our project, we initiated the help from MidJourney, who works from prompts inputted by us (humans). The technique ...
"H&M Group has worked with sustainability for many years and 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the company’s sustainability reporting. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB’s integrated Annual and Sustainability ...
"Better Cotton, which bills itself as the world’s leading sustainability initiative for cotton, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture." ...
"More than two years have passed since the coup in Myanmar. There have been crackdowns on trade unions shortly after the coup, and militant union leaders have been arrested or driven underground. Do w ...
"Fire in Agra Shoe Factory: Four people trapped in the factory were barely pulled out. Fire tenders started trying to control the fire. The fire was controlled after six hours of effort." ...
"On Sunday, the Fire Force unit submitted a preliminary inquiry report on the fire accident that occurred at Jayalakshmi Silks in Kozhikode. The incident, which happened on Saturday around 6 am, cause ...
"Nike has detailed the steps it is taking to eradicate forced labour in its supply chain following several calls from investors and NGOs to address concerns on the matter." ...
"Below, we set out five sustainability trends which demonstrate how seriously the retail sector is taking the environmental challenge and how it is innovating to address it. Second-hand market Rental ...
"In recent years, many fashion companies have made sustainability pledges that we need to determine whether they have been followed through on and implemented effectively, as there is often limited tr ...
"The fire incident at Top Glove Corp Bhd’s factory in Lukut, Negeri Sembilan on March 30 has caused a minimal impact with only one per cent of the group’s capacity. In a statement today, the gloves ma ...
"To meet the needs of customers looking for sustainable solutions, AM and SFI are rolling out several new wash innovations that take sourcing to the next level by reducing or eliminating the use of ha ...
"According to fans of capsule dressing, it's all about less is more, and the "rule of five". So is it time to return to more old-fashioned ways of thinking about what we wear, asks Matilda Welin." ...
"Apparel exporters have urged the government to provide at least Tk1,500 crore in advance cash incentives from the export subsidy fund, saying that factory owners need special support to pay workers' ...
"The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has urged the government to establish an industrial police unit in the Dhaka metropolitan area to help maintain law and order an ...
"A tidal wave of order cancellations in early 2020 had dire repercussions for laborers and their families. The consequences are still being felt. [...] Walmart. Target. Aldi. Kohl’s. Gap Inc. H&M. Ind ...
"Diverting the ever-growing mountain of post-consumer apparel waste from landfill is a task way beyond the textile industry’s current capabilities, a new study has found." ...
"Smart factories act as enablers that work in tandem with humans to make their job easier, to reduce the dependency on redundant manual efforts so that workers can be assigned other important tasks an ...
"The 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse sparked a call for change in the global fashion industry. But 10 years on, more than 100 billion clothes a year are made – mostly from oil turned into polyester – ...