The humble washing machine is ensuring that sustainable fashion goes for a toss in Britain as households use it with indiscriminate settings jacking up their electricity bills and ruining the longevity of clothing, says a not-for-profit campaign.

Australia's premier research institution Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) has embarked on an ambitious $10 million five-year collaborative approach to disease research to mitigate the economic impacts of disease.

The Australian cotton industry has made remarkable progress in the last 25 years, with its water consumption dropping by half.  The last year also witnessed a record harvest of 5.6 million bales valued at a record $4.6 billion.

Take-back schemes, often touted by brands as a tool of circularity, can create an illusion that the fashion industry is dealing with its massive waste problem. However, despite grand promises of reuse and recycling plastered on brands’ collection boxes, they are failing to uphold their commitments, says a scathing report by Changing Markets Foundation.

CottonConnect has developed a Responsible Business for Gins Code of Conduct in consultation with multiple industry stakeholders and independent verification bodies.

While volumes and values of leather increased, this came against a backdrop of spiralling costs for energy and inflation, besides ongoing issues with the cost for transport of materials, a report from Leather UK has said.

As critical actions to make fashion industry more sustainable gains momentum, a study by the University of Leeds has declared that although durability can be measured to identify the most and the least durable garments, retail price cannot be used to predict which garment will last longer.

Munich Fabric Start came to a close on Thursday last with preps on for the next showcases this September and November, and its next edition in January 2024.

Stakeholders in the business of hemp need to collaborate to shape its production system from the soil up to ensure that its holistic benefits can be leveraged to meet climate and nature targets, global nonprofit Textile Exchange has said.

The Textiles 2030 Annual Progress Report 2021–22 of climate action NGO WRAP sets out the baseline for Textiles 2030, based on the signatories’ combined carbon and water footprints in 2019.