"Over 100 garment factory employees at the Koggala Free Trade Zone have been admitted to hospital following suspected food poisoning." ...
2023
"Summary: Stanley/Stella has shown advanced results on performance indicators and has made exceptional progress. With a benchmarking score of 85, Stanley/Stella is once again placed in the Leader cate ...
"The Better Cotton initiative has announced the launch of a new programme in Uzbekistan as it looks to further promote the environmental and social benefits of sustainable agricultural practices." ...
"Sustainability ran high in decisions, actions and policymaking across the European Union (EU) this year. The European Fashion Alliance and the Nordic Swan Ecolabel were launched; the £2-million Circu ...
"Charity shops are not a “dumping ground” for ultra-fast fashion and are still full of high-quality items, a charity sector boss has said. Traid, a charity working to stop clothes from being thrown aw ...
"Wearing second-hand clothing has become an act of “rebellion” for young people concerned about climate change, according to celebrated fashion stylist Bay Garnett. Garnett, who put together the outfi ...
"Former Neonyt boss Thimo Schwenzfeier has started a new job at P&C in Berlin. After a good year as Head of Marketing & PR at the Greentech Festival, he takes over the management of P&C's first purely ...
"Sanni Kunas in conversation with Lucy Siegle Sanni Kunnas is from Finland and has a background in social sciences. She worked for six years in the chemical industry in Brussels, before deciding to st ...
"Sustainability yet again was the most used buzzword of the year in the denim supply chain. However, two recent studies revealed that fashion’s sustainability claims remain convoluted, desperately in ...
"Taking a cue from the increasing demand for sustainability in apparel production, Pakistan-based US Denim Mills, the fabrics vertical of US Group, has developed another eco-efficient alternative tech ...
"FNW: Sustainable brands also wanted a holistically sustainable hall - after the discontinuation of Neonyt. Will this be the case? AT: We are working on it. There will be close to 100 more sustainable ...
"The Bangladesh Garments Workers Unity Council (BGWUC) today demanded that the monthly minimum wage of the garment workers to be hiked by 175 per cent to Tk 22,000 from the existing Tk 8,000." ...
"Pakistan does not require expansion of further international agencies, such as the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Sector, as it has a history of duplicated and ...
"Nasreen Sheikh and the fight for the world’s 50 million victims of modern-day slavery. Nasreen Sheikh was nine years old when she fled Rajura, a Nepalese village on the border with India where she wa ...
"Kings of Indigo, the Dutch ethical jeans brand that has been bankrupt since November, has found its saviours. Kathrin and Sebastian Proft, owners and managers of three sustainable fashion companies i ...
"In particular, the report found that more businesses will turn to technology solutions to create more sustainable business practices. Digital solutions such as AR and AI are among the top technologie ...
"It’s time to revisit the Carolinas. What were once storied textile towns in the southern U.S. are now material makers, broadening upon bio-based materials for fashion and more. And with a growing clu ...
"The European Union looks to regulate industry from production to waste over the next few years, while new laws go into effect in France, German and the Netherlands." ...
"Swedish textile recycler Renewcell has announced that it has begun commercial production of its Circulose dissolving pulp at its new flagship factory at Sundsvall in Sweden." ...
"The launch of the Dong Nai provincial labour arbitration council has been positively greeted as a step forward for Vietnamese labour relations. But it may actually end up undermining pressure for pro ...