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James E Thomas

Senior Lecturer in Health Policy & Community Health Georgia Southern University
James E Thomas

James Thomas is a Lecturer in the Department of Department of Health Policy and Community Health at Georgia Southern University. He joined Georgia Southern in 2018.

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Recycling Story / Avantium Interview
In Dawn’s model, the stronger commercial driver comes from converting cellulosic content, with polyester recovery remaining important but secondary to the wider economics of industrial deployment.

Polycotton Recycling Faces a Scale Test That Chemistry Alone Cannot Solve

  • Subir Ghosh

21 April 2026
HSBC Downgrade / Nike Impact Analysis
Once a reliable proxy for global consumption growth, major sportswear labels now face a market in which scale and cultural recognition are no longer sufficient to guarantee investor confidence or competitive position.

The Sportswear Market Has Changed the Rules and the Biggest Players Are Exposed

  • Subir Ghosh

28 April 2026
 
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Socialwashing / Rana Plaza Analysis
The industry-level corpus of 322 reports from 69 companies replicates the topic-priority and positive-framing patterns found among Accord and Alliance members, indicating that environmental emphasis and rhetorical optimism are sector-wide disclosure norms rather than crisis-specific responses.

Apparel Brands Turned Disclosure into a Performance of Responsibility After Rana Plaza

  • Richa Bansal

1 May 2026
Consumer Trends / AI Shopping Commentary
Fashion’s pricing shift is not only about higher costs, but about algorithms learning when hesitation, desire and discounting meet inside routine online purchasing decisions today.

Convenience Becomes the Engine Driving Fashion’s New Overconsumption Problem Online

  • Aayushi Badhwar

30 April 2026
 
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Kapok Textiles / Flocus Feature
Kapok fibre grows on trees, on non-agricultural land. It not only offers a new environment involvement by creating demand for more trees to be planted and halt deforestation, it also positively impacts on the communities where the fibre is grown and processed. Why was it forgotten!?

Flocus Your Attention: A Novel Initiative is Resurrecting a Forgotten, Regenerative Fibre

  • Richa Bansal

7 February 2024
Rethinking Circularity / Garments Apart / III Feature
Circularity cannot be retrofitted onto a finished product; it must be resolved as a structural constraint before construction ever begins.

Recyclable Materials Mean Nothing if the Product Cannot Be Disassembled

  • Subir Ghosh

10 April 2026