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Retailers slammed for hiding from safety pledges
Nine years since a deadly fire at a major Bangladesh garment supplier, campaigners are urging Walmart and other retailers to
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Greenpeace calls for laws to curb fashion’s excesses
HAMBURG – The global fashion industry will not address its destructive impact on the climate without regulation, according to a
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FibreTrace launches traceable Benin cotton pilot
GLO-DJIGBÉ – Traceable textile specialist FibreTrace has announced a partnership with industrial park developer Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP)
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US$1 trillion to decarbonise fashion supply chains
WASHINGTON – Decarbonising global fashion supply chains to achieve a net-zero fashion industry by 2050 will cost more than one
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Xinjiang cotton reaching fashion supply chains
SHEFFIELD – Banned cotton from Xinjiang in China is still making its way into global fashion supply chains and final
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GPS tracking sting finds Nike destroying returned trainers
OREGON – US sportswear brand Nike is destroying newly returned trainers, according to a team of investigative journalists from Germany.
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Fashion supply chain costs soaring, survey finds
LONDON – The era of sourcing-cost price deflation in fashion supply chains is over, according to a new survey of
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Shein suppliers flouting labour laws, exposé finds
GUANGZHOU – An undercover exposé found that suppliers of Chinese ultra-fast fashion brand Shein have been seriously flouting labour laws,
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PEF label concerns raised in Norwegian parliament
OSLO – Concerns have been raised in the Norwegian Parliament about whether the EU’s planned labelling scheme, Product Environmental Footprint
Fashion brands called out for stalling on a new Accord
4th August 2021
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AMSTERDAM – Clean Clothes Campaign has publicly called out fashion brands including H&M, Primark, Inditex, Bestseller and C&A for failing to back the renewal of
Wood-based fibres degrade within 60 days – study
4th August 2021
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LONDON – A new study found that wood-based cellulosic fibres fell apart within 30 days and fully degraded within 60 days in seawater. In contrast,
