Producers would soon be held responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products, according to the new proposals to introduce mandatory and harmonised Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for textiles in all EU Member States.

Claiming a new era of sustainable PFAS and PFC-free waterproof and air-permeable materials, Nibertex, a nanofibre technology specialist, seeks to redefine performance in the technical textile market.

A recent study has mapped material flows across London's fashion supply chain, identifying where carbon hotspots occur and shows that fashion makes a significant contribution to the city’s consumption-based emissions associated with the stuff are used. 

The Global Environment Facility has approved 26 projects led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. One project in Pakistan will join the Eliminating Hazardous Chemicals from Supply Chains Integrated Program and utilise circular bioeconomy principles to transform banana waste into a sustainable alternative to cotton.

The US Cotton Trust Protocol has launched a five-year project which seeks to measure and improve the carbon footprint of the US cotton industry.

Computer scientists have reconstructed one of the most complete genomes of a top cotton species, which now give scientists a more complete picture of how wild cotton was domesticated over time and may help to strengthen and protect the crop for farmers.

In some hours from now, a revitalised Première Vision Paris will open its doors to a congregation of fashion professionals to decode trends for the next season in a continuously evolving global trade scenario.

The just-concluded Global Fashion Summit unveiled the CTI Fashion Initiative that seeks to align incentives, standardise circularity measures and unlock innovative business models for both industry players and consumers across the textile-fashion value chain.

There is an urgent imperative for the textile-apparel sector in Sweden to go sustainable and establish itself globally to reach its full potential, a new report on the country's export-dependent industry has underlined.

The Denim Deal Monitor 2022 says there is a positive development in the increase in application of post-consumer recycled cotton in denim garments and jeans, with 7 of the 8 participating brands and retailers aiming for higher targets than the 5%-PCR-content in the coming years.