
Peak Performance tests fully recyclable down anorak
STOCKHOLM – Swedish outdoor brand Peak Performance has unveiled a down anorak it claims can be dismantled and recycled at

STOCKHOLM – Swedish outdoor brand Peak Performance has unveiled a down anorak it claims can be dismantled and recycled at

CHRISTCHURCH – The New Zealand Merino Company says it is making digital traceability standard across its flagship ZQ and ZQRX

ROME – Italy’s fashion lobby has unveiled a strategic plan it says is needed to stop the country’s manufacturing base

TEXAS – Avalo, a US-based agtech startup, has begun harvesting its first commercial crop of “low-carbon” cotton, bred using artificial

LEICESTER – A long-awaited government review has concluded there is no evidence of prosecutable forced labour in Leicester’s garment sector.

MEMPHIS – The US Cotton Trust Protocol says its grower members have met or exceeded most of their 2025 sustainability

LONDON – A major review of microplastic toxicity studies found fewer than half provide the information needed to support ecological

MELBOURNE – UPPAREL has opened what it claims is Australia’s largest onshore textile recycling facility. The 10,500-square-metre plant in Melbourne

BRAZIL – Campaigners have called on fashion brands to turn rhetoric into action at COP30, arguing the industry is far

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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