Greenpeace

Even as Indonesia’s Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE) with its four subsidiaries flatly denies all allegations made in the recently released Pulping Borneo report, the publishers of the investigative study have dismissed the denials as “insufficient.” A texfash.com report.

In the eye of a greenwashing storm is one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies, Indonesia’s Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE) and its subsidiaries, for deforesting thousands of hectares from across its supply chain, a Greenpeace investigation has revealed.

A Greenpeace report that hammers at the self-assessed ‘green’ claims by some top brands asserts that sustainability has become a communication goal without putting credible measures in place to realign their linear business models.

The European Parliament has reached an EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains. Once adopted and applied, this law is intended to ensure that a set of key goods placed on the EU market will no longer contribute to deforestation and forest degradation in the EU and elsewhere in the world. Environmental organisations, however, have pointed out loopholes in the proposed law.

Fast fashion giant Shein finds itself in the dock yet again as tests on its products by Greenpeace Germany reveal hazardous chemicals that break EU regulatory limits.

An investigation by the Unearthed team of Greenpeace and Daily Mail newspaper have unravelled a scandal in Cambodia wherein off-cuts from Cambodian clothing factories that supply leading western brands, including Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors, are being used to fuel brick-kilns—exposing bonded workers to toxic fumes.

A new Greenpeace report finds that the Global North has found a backdoor to get rid of its textile waste and is forcing countries from the Global South to deal with the consequences of fast fashion, even though they have no infrastructure to do so.