"Retail is littered with plastic: polybags, pallet wraps, films, mailers, hangers, bags, tags and more. While many of fashion’s retailers are making strides toward greater sustainability, the plastic ...
"The P&C works with Principles, Criteria and Indicators. Principles are the overarching sustainability areas, Criteria are the outcomes that should be aimed for within a Principle, and Indicators are ...
"The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), which bills itself as the world’s leading sustainability initiative for cotton, will take a more local, farmer-centric approach, according to the new updates it ha ...
"Global trade unions IndustriAll and UNI are calling on garment and textile brands to sign the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry to safeguard workers." ...
"The report shows that adopting data analytics, AI, IoT and 3D technologies has redefined clothing production, with 3D printing technology gaining ground to minimise waste and bolster sustainability. ...
"The goal of our Accelerating Circularity Project Europe (ACPE) pilots is to pressure test a circular textile-to-textile system in light of our mission line that Textiles are Too Good to Waste™. Under ...
"The sector’s greenhouse gas footprint rose to 13.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2021, up 5 percent year-on-year, though still down from pre-pandemic levels, according to Textile Exc ...
"Executive Summary Wool and synthetic fibers are responsible for serious harms to the planet, particularly the climate and biodiversity, yet they continue to be widely used in the fashion industry. Wh ...
"More than half of wool knitwear is blended with synthetic fibers derived from fossil fuels, a new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity and Collective Fashion Justice has found. Too Hot for ...
"April 24th, 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, which killed more than a thousand garment workers in Bangladesh. With one of the lowest average wages in the world and the lead ...
"We were promised hemp fashion. Since the 1990s, we’ve been told that soon we will all be wearing sustainable, local, American-grown hemp fabrics. That it would replace king cotton and become the new ...
"A number of US states are banning PFAS in clothing, but the crackdowns leave a loophole for heaps of toxic clothes to keep circulating through resale markets." ...
"But is fashion actually doing enough to address its impact on the climate? A new report from UN Climate Change and CDP suggested that only 45 per cent of Fashion Charter signatories have actually set ...
"A study shows that the cost of living is directly impacting Gen Z and Millennial U.K. consumers from sustainable purchasing. New research by Untold Insights, a U.K.-based digital customer research an ...
"The promotion of biodegradation and biodegradability is being used to assuage consumer guilt associated with over-production and the ‘buy-use-dump model’ for both chemicals and clothing." ...
"Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and dyes ...
"Shein will be partnering with 2,000 garment factories in Brazil, creating 100,000 new jobs over the next three years as part of a plan to help the South American nation become a manufacturing and exp ...
"As part of its ongoing circular Reselfridges initiative, luxury retailer Selfridges has launched a new season-long campaign designed to explore new forms of retail experiences related to secondhand a ...
"The National Green Tribunal has directed Rajasthan to pay an interim compensation of Rs 100 crore for damage to the environment, including pollution of the Dravyavati river, caused allegedly by texti ...
"Monday marks the 10-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse that killed 1130 Bangladeshi workers and sparked a push for change in safety standards across the fashion industry. Among 25 co ...
