
WRAP offers blueprint for EPR scheme in UK
LONDON – The UK Textiles Pact has published a ten point, industry blueprint setting out how a mandatory Extended Producer

LONDON – The UK Textiles Pact has published a ten point, industry blueprint setting out how a mandatory Extended Producer

NANYANG – Nature-inspired filtration membranes with one nanometre pores could help textile dyehouses recycle water and cut energy use. This

VIENNA – Greenpeace Austria has accused C&A of selling ‘Iconic Puffer’ jackets containing PFAS, after laboratory tests found the chemicals

BRUSSELS – EU-based industry groups are sounding the alarm over a growing push in several EU Member States to set

BRUSSELS – The European Union has launched a €6m experimental project to develop and test a deposit-return system for used

LONDON – Fashion’s race to scale lower impact materials and cleaner manufacturing is being slowed by a structural imbalance in

PARIS – French retailer Carrefour has begun rolling out environmental labelling across a first tranche of its Tex private label

ZURICH – Oeko-Tex has partnered with TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, to digitise transaction certificates for organic cotton supply chains. The

PARIS – Textile recycler Reju has selected Rochester, New York for its first US industrial sized textile to textile recycling

LONDON – Researchers have unveiled a chemical-based recycling method they claim can decompose clothing fabrics into reusable molecules, regardless of the fibre blend they contain.

BRUSSELS – A first-of-its-kind event in Belgium on 4-5 June next year will showcase new and emerging technologies in textile recycling. The focus will be

SEOUL – Children’s clothing items sold by Chinese fast fashion brand Shein contained toxic substances at levels hundreds of times above permitted limits. Toxic substances

PARIS – France has told Reuters news agency it is proposing a ban on exports of used clothing. The proposals are being backed by Sweden

BRUSSELS – Members of the European Parliament have this week voted in favour of proposals to introduce mandatory Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for textiles in

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Police in Haiti violently broke up a demonstration by garment workers in support of demands for an increase in the minimum wage. Unions

LONDON – The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced fashion will be the first consumer sector it focuses on as it investigates and

PORTSMOUTH – A new study in the UK found that people breathe in up to 7,000 microplastic particles every day from clothing and other textiles

BRUSSELS – 11 European Governments have written a joint letter to the European Union calling for better consumer information about clothing and an end to
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