
WCO warns used textiles viewed as “high risk” waste stream
BRUSSELS – The World Customs Organization says stronger monitoring and enforcement will be needed to prevent illegal textile waste shipments

BRUSSELS – The World Customs Organization says stronger monitoring and enforcement will be needed to prevent illegal textile waste shipments

WASHINGTON – Fashion brands making ‘Made in USA’ claims will face fresh regulatory scrutiny after President Trump ordered a Federal

DHAKA – Bangladesh garment exporters are securing higher prices in the European Union than in the United States, according to

BRISBANE – Salvos Stores has opened what it says is Australia’s first automated textile sorting and decontamination facility. Salvos, the

STOCKHOLM – In a move which could have wider ramifications, H&M has called on brands to put money into supply

MANCHESTER – Regatta Professional is launching a new workwear range designed to be recyclable through a thermo-mechanical recycling process. The

VIRGINIA – US textile recyling business Circ has signed a new partnership agreement with Xinxiang Bailu Chemical Fiber. The move

DHAKA – Bangladesh ready-made garment (RMG) exports fell 3.73 per cent year on year to US$25.80bn in the first eight

ALEXEANDRIA – Paradise Textiles is investing US$102m in a new integrated fabric manufacturing facility in Egypt, in Alexandria’s Amreya Public

GENEVA – A new study suggests the scale of microplastic pollution in our oceans could be a million times worse than previously estimates – and

DALLAS – New plans have been announced to develop the largest hemp processing facility in the US. The proposals have been put forward by Panda

MADRID – A delegation from the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action (UNFCCC) has used COP25 to urge energy ministers to do more to

BEIJING – New research has highlighted the climate action of apparel brands in their Chinese supply chains. According to the Institute of Public and Environmental

HAWASSA – Garment industry workers in Ethiopia continue to be the lowest paid in the world according to a dispatch from IndustriALL Global Union, which

TOCKHOLM – H&M has expressed doubt about the current push by the global apparel industry towards climate offsetting. In a candid interview on the fast

NORWICH – A British business which has developed the first commercially available biological dyeing process which sees engineered microorganisms produce naturally-occurring pigments is to start

PHNOM PENH – Unions in Cambodia are calling on the European Union (EU) not to withdraw the Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme warning it would

DHAKA – A government-led initiative in Bangladesh has been launched to ensure 90 per cent of all garment workers in the country will be paid
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