Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Each stakeholder in the leather industry, be it the tanner, trader, supplier or customer must get involved to get leather to a safe place in the mind of new younger consumers, and throughout the supply network involved. There are no impossible hurdles for a determined leather industry to make great strides quickly and set an achievable target date with milestones.

The UN Climate Change-convened Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action (Fashion Charter) and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) are working on a new guidance to help apparel and footwear companies more efficiently and consistently measure their purchased goods and services (PG&S) emissions.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has issued a statement in response to the guidance issued by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Norwegian Consumer Authority (NCA) on usage of the Higg MSI tool in making sustainability claims.

A joint crackdown by consumer authorities in the Netherlands and Norway on the use of Higg MSI is critical for the entire clothing industry, both for developers and providers of data instruments as well as for clothing companies that use these types of instruments.

Textile Exchange's Material Change Index (MCI) has reached a 50% preferred materials use even though growth in the uptake of recycled inputs is dominated by plastic packaging waste. However, post-consumer textile waste is at a paltry 1.49% of recycled inputs, and 0.18% of textile use overall. texfash.com reports.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), in the dock over the use of its Higg MSI tool, has paused the 'transparency' tool across the world. The decision comes almost two weeks after the Norwegian Consumer Agency (Forbrukertilsynet) ruled that the Higg MSI tool is not sufficient as a basis for the environmental claims that outdoor brand Norrøna and fast fashion giant H&M were using in marketing themselves and their products.

The beleaguered Higg MSI by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition has come under fire yet again as the Natural Fibers Alliance calls for its immediate suspension. A texfash.com report.

In a big blow for the Higg MSI tool, Norway has ruled that the former is not sufficient as a basis for the environmental claims that fast fashion retailer H&M and outdoor brand Norrona have used in marketing themselves and their products, and asked the two entities to change or remove the relevant marketing using the Higg MSI from their product pages within the stipulated time.

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.