| China Launches Textile Traceability Platform to Align with Dual Carbon Strategy |
Traceability |
China Platform |
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| Textile Exchange Updates List of Banned Certifiers; Most in Fresh List from China and Bangladesh |
Certifications |
Banned Entities |
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| Better Cotton Beefs up Climate Strategy, Adds 4 New Impact Areas |
Climate Action |
Impact Areas |
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| Wearables Gamechanger: Thread-Like Pumps Can Be Woven Into Clothes |
Wearables |
Research Study |
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| Labour Costs, Not Target Retail Price, Should Determine Garment Price For Living Wage, Researchers Conclude |
Living Wages |
Initiatives |
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| Digital Samples Reduced Costs by 50%, Cut Sampling Time from 12 to 4 Weeks |
Tech Adoption |
Sampling |
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| Online Retailers Yet to Make Shopping More Inclusive for People with Disabilities |
Adaptive Clothing |
Online Retail |
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| Living in Denial: Apparel Companies Underestimating Potential Water Risks in Supply Chains |
Water Pollution |
Apparel Companies |
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| New Wood-Based Technology Removes 80% of Dye Pollutants in Wastewater |
Dyes & Chemicals |
Pollutants |
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| Coalition Launched in US to Shut Down Shein |
Shein Effect |
Coalition Launch |
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| Europe Gets Closer to Outlawing Malaise of Greenwashing |
Greenwashing |
Europe Directive |
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| Brands Love Petroleum: Fashion Companies Continue to Rely on Fossil Fuels, Supply Chain Decarbonisation Still a Far Cry |
Fossil Fuel Fashion |
Scorecard |
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| Coping with the Fallout: Turkish Textiles Industry Needs Business |
Quake Aftermath |
Turkish Industry |
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| Chemical Sorting Breakthrough: Korea Team Separates Polyester, Commercial Operations Planned for 2025 |
Textile Waste |
Chemical Sorting |
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| TSA, UKHospitality Agree to Eliminate Single-Use Plastic Waste Created During Servicing of Hotel Linen |
Plastic Waste |
Hotel Linen |
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| Birla Cellulose Completes First Pilot Spin of Lyocell Fibres Containing Nanollose’s Microbial Cellulose |
Fibre Innovation |
Nullarbor |
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| Registrations for 38th World Fashion Convention Now Open; First IAF Convention in North America in 2 Decades |
World Fashion Convention |
Registrations |
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| Circular Systems Adds Traceability to Circularity with FibreTrace |
Traceability |
Circular Supply |
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| Twelve New Innovators Join Fashion For Good’s Global Platform |
Innovation |
New Entrants |
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| Breakthrough Moment: Researchers Separate Cotton from Polyester in Blended Fabric |
Going Circular |
Breakthrough |
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| SAC Launches New Membership Model |
Industry Action |
SAC |
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| Indian PM Announces 7 Mega Textile Parks; Minister Says No Need for National Textiles Policy |
Textiles Policy |
India |
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| India's First Textile Sustainability Awards Given Away by CITI |
CITI Awards |
First Edition |
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| State of Fashion Returns: 750,000 tonnes of CO2 Emissions; £7 billion in Costs; And Counting |
Return to Sender |
UK Overview |
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| Going Sky High: Australian Designers and Brands Get a New Fashion Marketplace on Qantas |
Airline Retail |
Marketplace |
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| Finnish Research Project to Explore Cultural Tradition of Dyes and Development of Bio-Based Dyes |
Dyes & Chemicals |
Research Project |
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| Making Sustainability the Norm Will Take India Towards Knowledge-Based Economy, Make Its Textiles Industry a Cash Cow |
Event Report |
GTC 2023 |
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| Common Dry-Cleaning Chemical Linked to Parkinson’s Disease |
Toxics Usage |
TCE |
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| GOTS Announces Version 7.0; Tightens Control on Environmental and Social Criteria |
Organic Standards |
GOTS 7.0 |
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| COVID-19 Pandemic Had Clear Consequences for Swedish Fashion Industry, Says Research |
Pandemic Effect |
Sweden Study |
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| Your Clothing Could Soon Charge Your Mobile Phone |
Innovation |
Electronic Textiles |
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| Sustainable Apparel Coalition and RCGD Global Partner to Promote Sustainable Design Choices |
Industry Partnership |
Design Choices |
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| So, What Does it Take to Become a Luxury Brand Manager? |
Luxury Markets |
Brand Strategies |
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| Lured by the Luxe? Why Not Make it a Career? |
Luxury Markets |
Career Options |
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| tex.tracer raises €1.5 million to Accelerate Growth and Expand Globally |
Investments |
Transparency |
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| IOAS Suspends Control Union India for Irregularities in Certification Process |
Certifications |
Organic India |
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| Most Garment Workers in Sri Lanka Not Getting Emergency Relief Allowances |
Workers Rights |
Sri Lanka Relief |
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| SAC Launches Guide on Developing Action Plans to Deliver Individual Targets |
Climate Action |
SAC Guide |
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| Kenya Gets $39 million to Take on Asia; Norfund to Invest in Balaji and Hela |
Investments |
Kenyan Industry |
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| Australian Stakeholders Come Together to Develop Strategic Roadmap for Cotton Industry |
Cotton Crisis |
Australia Project |
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| IAF and AAF Sign MoU on Closer and More Frequent Collaboration |
Collaborations |
IAF-AAFA |
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| Texaid Looks at Sorting 4.0 with Project to Transform Textile Waste into Feedstock |
Going Circular |
Texaid Project |
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| SAC, Higg Reorganise Module for Brands and Retailers; Add Biodiversity as Impact Area |
Brand & Retailers |
Higg Update |
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| Leather Industry Organisations Start Work on Alignment of Leather Traceability Schemes |
Traceability |
Leather Initiative |
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| Circ Raises Another $25 Millionin Series B Extension Funding, Ready to Scale up |
Going Circular |
Investments |
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| Pleats Please and in a Curated Trunk in Your Living Room |
Case Study |
Five Point Five |
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| World's Greenest & “Revolutionary” Indigo Dyeing Technology to be Installed Later This Year |
Denim Tech |
Indigo Dyeing |
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| Used Textiles Exported from EU Tripled in Past 2 Decades |
Textile Waste |
Europe Markets |
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| Technology and Design Come Together to Develop Functional Products that Impact People's Lives |
Functional Textiles |
FTC 2023 |
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| Researchers Develop Graphene-Based Wearable Health-Monitoring Textiles |
Smart Textiles |
Health Monitoring |
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