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Opinion / #textiles

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Manufacturing

Can the fashion industry adapt to a warming world?

COP30 agreed to triple adaptation finance, but the fashion industry needs adaptation measures now.
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Manufacturing

Fast fashion has a serious coal problem

A handful of fashion brands – H&M, Ralph Lauren, Decathlon and Adidas – are working to stop using coal to power their factories in 2025, while others are prioritising decarbonisation at lower levels of ambition.
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Manufacturing

Toxic threads? The hidden dangers of ultra-fast fashion

Shoppers could be exposing themselves to carcinogens in the fabrics of the ultra-cheap, ultra-fast fashions they buy online.
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Waste

South Asian leadership is needed for an equitable plastics treaty

As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear.

All #textiles Opinion

2 September 2019

ann taylor clothes

Manufacturing

Time to make fast fashion a problem for its makers

4 May 2018

Workers at this garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh

Manufacturing

Empowering Bangladesh’s female garment workers

9 March 2018

A garment factory worker in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Manufacturing

How fashion brands are tackling modern slavery in Mauritius

6 February 2018

Flea market

Manufacturing

Don't read this article: How ads against consumerism help sustainability

29 December 2017

Sale time

Lifestyle

Read this before you go sales shopping: the environmental costs of fast fashion

14 September 2017

Models on a catwalk New York Fashion Week 2007

Lifestyle

What we know—and need to know—about sustainable fashion

7 February 2017

Clothes on hangers

Manufacturing

To create meaningful change, apparel brands need to pursue sustainability at the industry level

19 May 2014

Repair Cafe

Waste

‘Repair cafés’ are about fixing things – including the economy

3 June 2013

Sustainable laundry

Energy

The dirt on clothes: why washing less is more sustainable

7 May 2013

Keivan

Manufacturing

Why companies should care about the environment

24 November 2010

Manufacturing

Why low hanging fruit of factories carbon management is not plucked, by Liam Salter

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