It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Marks & Spencer

PRESS RELEASE / Appointment

23 April 2024

4 minutes

M&S has been leading the way with new and exciting products and services since its inception 140 years ago and continues to innovate while never compromising on quality or sourcing and production standards.

Marks & Spencer and Oxfam Launch Free Postal Donation Service

London, U.K.: Marks & Spencer, the UK’s largest clothing retailer is – for the first time – asking the public to donate their unwearable clothing, alongside their wearable clothing, through the trial of a free postal donation service, in partnership with Oxfam.

It is estimated that UK homes contain 1.6 billion items of unworn clothing which have the...

Traceability / Better Cotton

3 November 2023

2 minutes

Better Cotton wants to scale up the availability and sourcing granularity of traceable Better Cotton to serve as the foundation for an Impact Marketplace that would compensate farmers for field-level progress, and enable country-level Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to calculate the environmental impact of Better Cotton in relation to conventional cotton.

Better Cotton Launches Own Traceability Solution for Fashion and Textiles Sectors

The Better Cotton Platform, Better Cotton’s just launched own traceability solution for the fashion and textiles sectors from the ginning stage right through to the retailer or brand, will enable suppliers to log transactional information, culminating in visibility of where the raw material has originated from and how much is within a product.

Staff Writer

Cotton Crisis / 2023 Rankings

13 June 2023

4 minutes

This is not the first time that Solidaridad and PAN UK have released cotton rankings. Brands and retailers, by virtue of these Rankings, knew where they stood as far as cotton was concerned, and so did the world. They had all the time to make course corrections. What is astounding, therefore, is that in spite of all the resources at their disposal—financial, material and logistical—and all that chest-thumping and deafening rhetoric, brands still cut a sorry figure.

Almost 90% of Top Retailers and Brands Still Unsustainable, Not Transparent on Cotton

Jargon-laden and flowery sustainability reports by a majority of top brands and retailers would come across as a heap of gobbledygook if their actual performance is taken into account. Well, certainly for the cotton sector. As many as 89% are still non-transparent, unsustainable and show little progress towards improving labour conditions, says the 2023 Cotton Ranking just published by Solidaridad Europe and the Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK).