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While volumes and values of leather increased, this came against a backdrop of spiralling costs for energy and inflation, besides ongoing issues with the cost for transport of materials, a report from Leather UK has said.

As critical actions to make fashion industry more sustainable gains momentum, a study by the University of Leeds has declared that although durability can be measured to identify the most and the least durable garments, retail price cannot be used to predict which garment will last longer.

The Textiles 2030 Annual Progress Report 2021–22 of climate action NGO WRAP sets out the baseline for Textiles 2030, based on the signatories’ combined carbon and water footprints in 2019.

A new report that examines the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on the fashion, textile and technology ecosystem in the UK, offers five key recommendations to support future growth.

A recent study has mapped material flows across London's fashion supply chain, identifying where carbon hotspots occur and shows that fashion makes a significant contribution to the city’s consumption-based emissions associated with the stuff are used. 

An animal and plastic-free leather alternative crafted from waste barley grain from beer brewing industry has received £1.1m of investment from a clean-tech venture capital fund.

The UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT) is working towards a blueprint to innovate, combine and advance existing and new supporting technologies to overcome current barriers to materials circularity.

Researchers at the Manchester Metropolitan University are working to find a way to make sustainable, water-absorbent fabrics at home by using bacterial cellulose (BC) — a biodegradable, biomaterial.

The just released 2023 Circular Fashion Index (CFX) by Kearney rues that the needle has barely moved since last year's report, with the 200 global brands analysed barely reaching an average of 2.97 on a circularity scale of 10.

The appliance industry, its trade associations and legislators should recognise that all types of tumble dryers can be significant contributors to the problem of environmental microfibre pollution and begin efforts to mitigate this issue through revised usage instructions and improved appliance design.