In spite of all the tall promises made last year, the global fashion industry instead increased its emissions in 2022. Only one—Levi’s—of the top ten brands assessed showed any promise, a Stand.earth report released Tuesday has revealed.

Version 3.0 of the ZDHC Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (ZDHC MRSL) has been revised to further extend the list of harmful chemical substances to be restricted in their use, including PFAS treatments used for textiles, leather, and footwear.

The Australian fashion and textiles industry has just got a boost with eight skills pertaining to the industry being included in the country’s National Skills Priority List (SPL).

Fashion major Mango has invested an undisclosed amount in Spanish re-commerce platform Recovo.

Amazon is leading Walmart in both overall consumer and retail spend, according to the report 'The Battle for Consumer Retail Spend: Amazon Versus Walmart Q2 2022'.

With clothing accounting for nearly a quarter of all second-hand purchases made in the UK in 2022, there’s money to be made from turning pre-loved items into new-found fits, says a study.

Brands across spectrum are under fire. A research has now found that five popular tampon brands in the US — including two advertised as organic — have detectable levels of fluorine.

UK’s Textile Services Association (TSA) has called on the National Health Service (NHS) to change the guidance on maintaining workwear following a research that says that households face risk of cross-contamination from pathogens that health workers may bring home from work.

A consortium of 12 major players from across the entire recycling value chain has launched a EU-funded project to create a circular system for post-consumer textile waste. The T-REX Project (Textile Recycling Excellence) will work to create a harmonised EU blueprint for closed-loop sorting, and recycling of household textile waste.

The proposed PEFCR (Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules) for apparel and footwear will benefit brands the most, while manufacturers, particularly SMEs, will have to bear the burden. The fallacy has been pointed out in a EURATEX position paper, which also underlined that exisiting limitations can lead to misleading results.