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Textile Exchange and Bluesign to stage back to back conferences
MILAN – Two of the world’s leading sustainable textile organisations will stage back to back conferences in Italy this autumn.
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Fashion for Good to open sustainable fashion museum
AMSTERDAM – Fashion for Good will open a museum in October which explores issues around sustainable fashion. Open seven days
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Ethiopia way short of textile export target
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s textile and garment sectors achieved less than half of their export target for the 2017-2018 fiscal
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Organic cotton and BCI to work more closely
AMSTERDAM – Organic cotton and the Better Cotton Initiative will collaborate more closely moving forwards. In an exclusive interview with Apparel
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Adidas, H&M, Primark outline 2018 sustainability targets
BERLIN – More than 100 global organisations have published detailed roadmaps outlining how they will increase sustainability along the global
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Wool output forecast for 5.7 per cent drop in dought-hit Australia
SYDNEY – Australian wool production is forecast to fall by 5.7 per cent for the 2018/19 season as ongoing drought
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Selfie-syndrome fuelling wasteful purchasing
LONDON – Almost one in ten Brits have revealed they have bought clothes online to wear once with the aim
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Mass consumption an “experiment gone wrong”
LONDON – Fashion Revolution founder Orsola de Castro has welcomed the furore around Burberry’s stock incineration, believing the resulting bad
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C&A jeans set gold standard in sustainability
DÜSSELDORF – C&A has launched what could arguably claim to be the world’s most sustainable jeans. The leading European clothing
EU eyes textiles with launch of microplastics consultation
2nd December 2021
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BRUSSELS – The European Commission has launched a three-month public consultation seeking feedback on measures to tackle pollution from microplastics. Textile industry stakeholders are being
Study calls for microplastic weighting in fibre scoring tools
17th October 2018
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LONDON – New research has highlighted the potential for including microplastic pollution in environmental assessment tools for the apparel and textile industries. Researchers suggest it
Friends of the Earth targets polyester in microplastic campaign
17th September 2018
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LONDON – Environmental group Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign to educate consumers on microplastics and ultimately try shift the apparel industry away
Green light for JV which tackles microfibre pollution
12th September 2018
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CALIFORNIA – A new US venture which tackles synthetic fibre pollution has got the green light for commercialisation. The new technology allows polyester and other synthetic
Microplastic problem way worse than feared, claims study
12th March 2018
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MANCHESTER – New research suggests the amount of microplastics polluting the world’s oceans could be much greater than thought. A UK study uncovered the highest
Fast fashion linked to microfibre pollution
23rd February 2018
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BRUSSELS – Wear better quality clothing garments and wash them less often is the key message of a new report into the growing problem of
