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Water Pollution / New Study

5 August 2026

 9 minutes

Why Cleaner Water Has Not Meant Less Pollution; Fashion Keeps Fixing Wrong Leak in the Pipe

Cleaner water can mask fibre that has simply changed address, a distinction between genuine reduction and pollution that has merely relocated from one compartment to another.

A global assessment of pollution from textile manufacturing finds that wastewater treatment, long treated as the industry's primary fix, delivers only a fraction of the reduction available on its own. Researchers at Earth Action, working with The Nature Conservancy, argue that sludge disposal and product design carry far greater unrealised potential, reshaping how brands and policymakers should prioritise investment.

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Country Overview / Mexico Workers Report
The garment sector's smallest workshops and home-based units sit outside inspection by design, concealing the workers whose conditions are least documented and hardest to reach.

In Mexico, the Absent Inspector Is a Policy Choice, Not a Budget Accident

  • Special Correspondent

3 August 2026
Event Roundup / IT Shenzhen Interview
The textile industry's pivot toward digital tools and sustainable materials represents not a single transition but a layered negotiation between commercial reality and environmental imperative

Old Fibres and New Intelligence Compete for the Soul of Textile Manufacturing

  • Subir Ghosh

21 July 2026
 
ITMA 2027
CIRCULARITY / RECYCLING / SECONDS / WASTE
When every component of a material shares the same chemical identity, recycling stops being a logistical puzzle and becomes a straightforward industrial process within existing infrastructure.

Engineers Create Elastic Yarn as Strong as Spandex That Can Be Melted and Reused Again and Again

Stretchy clothing could soon be recycled as easily as plastic bottles, thanks to a new elastic yarn that rivals spandex yet melts down and respins into fresh thread. Built entirely from one plastic family, it needs no chemical separation, and could support more circular production and recovery across the textile industry.

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FLASHPOINT: CLIMATE
Material Innovation / Bezos Fund
The funding signals a research-led push to make alternative materials commercially usable, not merely experimental answers to fashion’s environmental footprint or laboratory curiosity.

The Race to Reinvent What We Wear Gets $34 Million from Bezos Earth Fund

  • Staff Writer
 Update

27 April 2026

Breakthrough textile materials have received $34 million in new Bezos Earth Fund grants, backing research into bacterial fibres, spider-silk-inspired biodegradable materials, coloured cotton and cotton seedbank restoration. The funding targets materials that can match rayon, silk and cotton while improving cost, performance and environmental outcomes across fashion and textile supply chains.

Climate Action / Ethiopia Project
Ethiopia's garment sector is entering a new phase, where climate resilience, cleaner production and worker advancement are becoming central to industrial strategy.

Climate Resilience and Workplace Safety Drive New ILO-Japan Programme for Ethiopian Garment Factories

  • Staff Writer
 Update

1 April 2026

Climate resilience, productivity and workplace safety are being advanced across Ethiopia's leather, textile and garment sector through a new ILO-Japan joint initiative. The one-year programme targets 40 factories across five cities, integrating Japanese expertise, digitalised safety tools and a women's leadership development programme to drive sustainable and inclusive industrial growth.

 
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FOCUS: COTTON
Resilience in agriculture often begins with small, repeated decisions made under uncertain conditions and constrained resources. This caption explores how incremental change accumulates into structural transformation across a working landscape shaped by necessity.

Climate Pressure Forces a Reckoning Across Pakistan's Cotton Belt

Fragmented pilot projects have long defined regenerative agriculture efforts in Pakistan's cotton sector, but mounting climate and market pressures are exposing the limits of that approach. Drawing on a recent industry roundtable, Abou Bakar, Country Representative – Pakistan, CottonConnect, explains what a coordinated national framework would look like, and why farmer incentives and traceability now sit at the centre of that conversation.

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Amey Padma
Amey Padma
Head – India Business
Heartland USA
Each stakeholder plays an important role, but technically capable manufacturing partners supported by strong research validation are critical in the early stages. Once technical feasibility and product performance are established, exporters and brands can accelerate commercialisation. Building a successful hemp ecosystem requires all participants to move forward together.
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Toby Moss
Toby Moss
Chief Commercial Officer
Worn Again Technologies
The Worn Again process has been designed from the start to process polycottons, which are a cornerstone fabric in modern clothes, but also some of the hardest to recycle. We also provide a unique solution to the market, which is the solvent based recycling approach. This approach is able to selectively target key materials, in this case polyester and cotton, in a way that other technologies are not.
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FOCUS: LEATHER
The new organisational structure is completed by a strongly product- and project-oriented operational model, with three event managers.

Major Reorganisation Positions Fierecongressi as a More Competitive Force in Global Exhibition Markets

A major internal reorganisation, aligned with a growth strategy and a substantial infrastructure investment programme, has reshaped Fierecongressi's operational model. The restructuring establishes a dedicated Internationalisation Area, merges two business units into a single Fairs Business Unit, and introduces a product-oriented structure to strengthen the company's competitive position in the global exhibition and congress market.

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Lineapelle 2025 demonstrated that the industry is ready to communicate in a different way. The collaboration between UNIC, Lineapelle, La Conceria, Is It Leather?, and voices like Volkan’s marks the beginning of a more open, consumer-connected era. But collaboration must extend to influencers, educators, and storytellers, people who can speak the language of the next generation of consumers.

The Power of Storytelling, Community and Leather’s Next Chapter

  • Blake Garavaglia
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14 October 2025
 
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