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Supply bottlenecks threaten recycled polyester push
SOUTH CAROLINA – A new briefing suggests the fashion industry will struggle to meet its ambitious targets for using recycled
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Sri Lanka textile park targets greener textile production
COLOMBO – A new, vertically integrated textile park could potentially help Sri Lanka become a world leader in sustainable textile
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Fast fashion can “never be sustainable,” says Livia Firth
LONDON – Fast fashion can never be sustainable, and remains the elephant in the room of all conversations about sustainable
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Bestseller to boost organic cotton use by 445%
COPENHAGEN – Danish fashion retailer, Bestseller, has committed to sourcing 6,000 metric tonnes of organic cotton from direct-to-farm agreements in
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Excess textile chemicals found in clothing of Shein
TORONTO – Clothing items being sold online by ultra fast fashion retailers Zaful, AliExpress and Shein, were found by scientists
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Outrageous green claims damage us all
LONDON – This week, it was announced that US-based fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger had become the latest brand to launch
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EU delegation reviews Sri Lanka’s GSP status
COLOMBO – A delegation from the European Union (EU) has this week arrived in Sri Lanka to review the country’s
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Zalando invests in Finnish textile recycling business
BERLIN – German online fashion retailer Zalando has announced it is investing textile recycling company Infinited Fiber Company. The investment
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ADNAS nets US$1.6m in textile tagging orders
NEW YORK – Applied DNA Sciences, a US-based leader in molecular tagging technology solutions, has received purchase orders from a
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,
