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

Walmart

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

11 March 2025

2 minutes

With this release, Wrangler joins a growing list of brands bringing circular products to market through Accelerating Circularity’s trials.

Wrangler x Accelerating Circularity Jeans Launch at Walmart

New York, U.S.: Following the successful launch of circular products at Target, another milestone in textile-to-textile recycling has landed in the market: the Wrangler x Accelerating Circularity jeans, now available at Walmart. This launch showcases the viability of integrating mechanically recycled post-consumer and post-industrial cotton into...

Textile Waste / Cambodia Hazards

21 November 2023

3 minutes

Workers have previously reported impacts including cough, cold, flu, nosebleed and lung inflammation. Nearby communities have also reported that the practice damages their crops and farmland.

Waste from Global Fashion Brands Contributing to Rights Abuses and Environmental Hazards in Cambodia: Investigation

Pre-consumer garment waste at some operational and permanently closed brick factories from as many as 19 international brands were found to be fuelling the kilns in Cambodia, exposing people to toxins and causing negative health and environmental impacts.

Staff Writer

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

Tech Innovation / Biomimicry

31 July 2023

3 minutes

Neeka and Leila Mashouf, twin sisters who grew up in North California, founded Rubi Laboratories in 2021 after inventing and prototyping the technology in a public biohacking lab, leveraging their deep scientific expertise in materials engineering and bioengineering.

Rubi Laboratories to Help Walmart Convert Emissions into Cellulosic Fibres

In what could well be a groundbreaking technology, a Walmart and Rubi Labs collaboration could soon be spinning out affordable clothing from carbon emissions, and the inspiration is nature yet again — the process how trees “eat” CO2!

Staff Writer

Climate Action / Corporate Responsibility

15 February 2023

3 minutes

The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2023 found that most companies’ climate strategies are mired in ambiguous commitments, offsetting plans that lack credibility and emission scope exclusions, but replicable good practice can be identified from a minority.

H&M, Inditex, Fast Retailing, Amazon, Carrefour, Walmart: All Accused of Hiding Climate Inaction

The second edition of the 2023 Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor has rapped fashion and retail giants for "hiding climate inaction behind a fig leaf of net zero plans."

Staff Writer

Retail Watch / Amazon vs Walmart

31 October 2022

2 minutes

Amazon’s surge can be attributed to consumers taking their shopping online during the first holiday season of the pandemic.

As Consumers Move Online, Amazon Leads over Walmart in US Retail

Amazon is leading Walmart in both overall consumer and retail spend, according to the report 'The Battle for Consumer Retail Spend: Amazon Versus Walmart Q2 2022'.

Staff Writer

Virtual Styling / Walmart Launch

17 September 2022

2 minutes

With Be Your Own Model, a customer sees an ultra-realistic simulation with shadows, fabric draping and where clothing falls on their figure in seconds. For example, a single shirt can come in six different colours, seven different sizes and two sleeve lengths. Be Your Own Model captures all the variations and shows how they look uniquely on each individual.

Walmart Unveils Virtual Try-on for Customers to Model the Clothing They Want to Shop

Trying out clothes at Walmart just got more interesting and compelling as its new virtual try-on technology — Be Your Own Model — allows customers to use their own photo to better visualise how clothing will look on them.

Staff Writer

Money Transfers / Walmart Scam

29 June 2022

4 minutes

The FTC says Walmart has known for many years that scammers use its locations to get money for 'grandparent', romance, and other scams, but it didn’t properly warn people or train its employees to prevent fraud. According to the FTC, many Walmart locations didn’t display or give people information about potential fraud, which could have stopped them from sending money to a scammer.

Scam Alert: Walmart Facilitated Money Transfer Fraud That Fleeced Customers Out of Hundreds of Millions

The Federal Trade Commission of the US on Tuesday sued Walmart for allowing its money transfer services to be used by fraudsters, who fleeced consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars. texfash.com reports.

Staff Writer

Under Cloud / Higg MSI

15 June 2022

7 minutes

Though allegations have been levelled at fashion giants, the SAC and the Higg Index find themselves in the eye of a storm for being the archangels of the 'sustainable fashion' ecosystem. The latter particularly has been under fire from critics for consistently downplaying natural fibres and instead promoting fossil fuel fashion (i.e polyster-driven fashion).

Back-to-Back News Reports Put Sustainability Archangels on the Back Foot

The Big Daddies in the textiles-apparel-footwear-fashion ecosystem are the hands behind some of the most followed sustainability benchmarks. The charge is that they have been using the cloak of opaqueness and secrecy and also the lack of credible data to greenwash themselves. texfash.com recaps the brouhaha.

Subir Ghosh

Commentary

Greenwashing / Legal Action

11 April 2022

2 minutes

“Kohl’s and Walmart are paying millions of dollars under the FTC’s Penalty Offense Authority for mislabeling their rayon products as bamboo,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “False environmental claims harm both consumers and honest businesses, and companies that greenwash can expect to pay a price.”

Kohl's, Walmart caught greenwashing; fined $5.5 million for marketing rayon products as bamboo

The US Federal Trade Commission used its Penalty Offense Authority last week to take action against retail giants Kohl’s, Inc and Walmart, Inc for falsely marketing dozens of rayon textile products as bamboo.