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Eric Trachtenberg

Executive Director International Cotton Advisory Committee
Eric Trachtenberg

Eric Trachtenberg is Executive Director, International Cotton Advisory Committee.

 
 
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Going Circular / Waste Flows Report
Waste accumulates faster than the mechanisms built to convert it into something usable again, leaving each year's surplus to compound against a system still catching up.

Textile Circularity Stalls Where Education, Community and Business Fail to Connect

  • Special Correspondent

10 July 2026
Hemp Prospects / India Story Interview
Hemp's economic case is built not on replacing cotton but on outperforming linen, nylon, and wool in specific, commercially validated blend applications where cost and performance align.

Hemp Finds a Business Case and India Is Where It Will Be Tested

  • Richa Bansal

6 July 2026
 
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Event Roundup / IT Shenzhen Interview
The textile industry's pivot toward digital tools and sustainable materials represents not a single transition but a layered negotiation between commercial reality and environmental imperative

Old Fibres and New Intelligence Compete for the Soul of Textile Manufacturing

  • Subir Ghosh

21 July 2026
Event Roundup / Brussels 2026 Analysis
Decades of quiet infrastructure built around collection, grading and international redistribution now underpin any credible circular textile economy, though the sector rarely receives comparable attention in policy design.

Brussels Proved Circularity Has Grown up; Now Industry Needs to Catch up

  • Mohammed Patel

14 July 2026
 
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State of Workers / Cambodia Interview
Cambodia’s garment sector remains highly exposed to new due-diligence laws, with weak oversight and minimal accountability increasing the risk of buyers shifting production elsewhere.

Global Compliance Shifts Challenge Cambodia’s Garment Industry on Climate, Labour, Governance

  • Subir Ghosh

9 October 2025
Worker Life / Ethiopia Resurgent / V Interview
Industrial zones are transforming nearby communities, bringing new consumer desires and widening the gap between rural and urban life.

The Human Story Inside Ethiopia’s Textile Parks: Survival, Change and Hope

  • Subir Ghosh

30 October 2025