In a bid to effectively reduce traffic accidents after untold deaths and injuries while transporting workers, Cambodia is finally set to phase out the huge cumbersome flatbed trucks.

A fund dedicated to supporting decarbonisation projects and climate change mitigation actions in outdoor industry supply chains will assist Taiwan in an ambitious renewable energy project.

A paper by Zero Waste Europe has emphasised the urgent need to phase out hazardous chemicals and tackle the release of microplastics, outlining a vision where textile recycling is not just a niche activity but a cornerstone of the industry.

NextGen material Celium — Premium Cultivated Cellulose — will now be available globally for consumer product applications, empowering more brands to adopt low carbon materials into their product categories.

The just announced Version 4.1 standard by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, aligned with the new European Union legal requirements on green claims, will be effective 1 July 2024.

Australia has launched a landmark nationwide study to probe consumer fashion disposal habits in a bid to better inform responsive policymaking and directly impact the Kangaroo country’s fashion waste.

Better Cotton, which has been at the receiving end over its failure to check deforestation and human rights abuses by cotton companies in Brazil, has decided to change its approach to lifecycle assessments by focusing on country-level LCAs.

The Fourth Environmental Assessment of the Australian Cotton Industry has made 16 new recommendations which would be assessed over ten years. It has also noted considerable progress made on the recommendations of the earlier assessment that was conducted in 2012.

The European Union will implement a two-year postponement of sector-specific standards for non-EU companies to allow for more time to apply for the first batch of standards and prepare for the next ones.

Researchers from the University of Alberta (U of A) are experimenting with cellulose from Canadian-grown hemp to determine the best parameters for producing lyocell, a man-made fibre that can then be turned into textiles for a wide range of products.