Reports on Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry are mostly about apparel workers, or the country's rising share in apparel exports. There is, however, an underbelly that remains off the radar: the unmitigated pollution of waterbodies. A report from the ground.

Some 3000 chemical and 300 textile industry plants in the EU will have to comply with new legal norms adopted under the EU Industrial Emissions Directive to reduce their environmental impact.

When aesthetics were coming at a price too dear, a techie-packaging pair of friends seized the gap in the market to launch a “reasonably priced” home fashion brand — Vaaree. A year on, it has had one seed round, and in the last few months the 50% month-on-month growth, brings hope for greater things in the future. A texfash.com exclusive.

A rainforest nut that falls off a huge palm tree provides an organic alternative to the ubiquitous button required by the fashion industry as a necessary accessory and at times even an embellishment. Ecuador-based Trafino SA is one of the largest enterprises in the business of exporting these ‘blanks’ made from the tagua nut. texfash.com talks to its Executive President Ignacio Maya to know more. 

The $3 million Dhaka-based Recycle-Raw claims to be the only compliant textile-garment waste-sorting company in Bangladesh and on mission to change the garbage sector into gold.

With concern mounting over microplastics and the search for sustainable options, the woollen swimsuits of the past could be the swimwear of the future.

The just concluded eleventh edition of the India International Textile Machinery Expo held at Noida from 8-13 December showcased India's huge potential as a sourcing hub for textile technology and engineering.  

Fifteen years ago, when Fashion Takes Action (FTA) was established as a non-profit, ‘sustainability’ as a term wasn’t in vogue. Now while some brands are clearly leaders and taking big risks and others are much slower to engage, what has worsened is that there are brands not genuinely invested in making change and are marketing to consumers as if they are. This increased level of greenwashing ultimately affects those who are on the right track. Kelly Drennan, Founding Executive Director of FTA, talks to texfash.com on their agenda for sustainability.

As pressure builds up on enterprises in the business of textile-fashion to be more transparent across their supply chain, industry outreach shows there’s many a slip twixt cup and the lip.

With the market for functional clothing forecast to reach $244.6 billion by 2025, driven to a large extent by the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming International Conference on Functional Textiles and Clothing (FTC) scheduled for 10 February 2023 is expected to see presentation of some pathbreaking research. This edition of the meet will focus on recycling and circularity challenges in design, manufacturing and supply chain in this category. Prof Sanjay Gupta, Vice-Chancellor of the World University of Design (WUD), under the aegis of which the conference is being held, talks to texfash.com.