Textile Exchange

Updating its list of banned organisations, nonprofit Textile Exchange has said that the newly listed organisations may not be certified to any of its standards for the duration of the ban.

The updated Higg Brand & Retail Module is now available for brands and retailers to measure and report on their ESG impacts to understand their progress and identify areas for improvement with clarity and transparency.

In sync with the UNEP Ecosystem Restoration narrative, removing the “and/or” approach, global nonprofit Textile Exchange has updated the term “Preferred” to include a fibre or raw material that delivers consistently reduced impacts and increased benefits for climate, nature, and people, through a holistic approach to transforming production systems.

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.

Textile Exchange (TE) has accepted the official ISO 15115 definition of leather, and manufacturers, brands and retailers must make it incumbent on themselves to educate consumers the difference between genuine leather and faux leather, PU leather, mushroom leather, pineapple leather, or any other plant-based leather which cannot be categorised as 'leather'. So, what does industry think?

With the intent to ensure that the cost of preserving forest is shared more equitably by the two ends of the supply chain and between majority and minority world countries, Textile Exchange and the Leather Working Group (LWG) are putting out a call to action for brands and retailers to commit to sourcing all their leather from verified deforestation-free supply chains by 2030 or earlier.

Textile Exchange has defined "leather" as an entity. The definition assumes significance in the backdrop of many companies using the "leather" suffix to identify their own alternative materials.

The blame for the low level of 'data confidence' in organic cotton numbers lies primarily with one country: India. The problem is that of India, but the entire world has to bear the burden. And, the Organic Cotton Market Report 2022 shows the strain that the world has to endure. A texfash.com analysis.

Buoyed by the rapidly growing demand, it is for the fifth year in a row that production of global organic cotton has increased. However, the bad news is that all data needs to be accepted with a pinch of salt, according to the latest Organic Cotton Market Report 2022. A texfash.com report.

With less than 1% of the global fibre market from pre- and post-consumer recycled textiles in 2021, the untethered production will ensure that the industry does not stay within the 1.5° pathway, the Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report warns.