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Joseph Winters

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Joseph Winters

Joseph Winters is Staff Writer at Grist.org.

 
 
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Rana Plaza / NGO Funds Analysis
More than a decade after one of the garment industry's worst industrial disasters, questions of accountability have shifted from factory owners and brands to the institutions that managed the humanitarian response.

Rana Plaza: The Moral Economy of Catastrophe and Who Collected Its Dividends

  • Richa Bansal

26 March 2026
Textile Recovery / Summit Report / I Feature
The gap between what EPR legislation promises and what existing infrastructure can deliver is not a technical problem. It is a diagnostic one, rooted in how policymakers have chosen to define the boundaries of the system.

Legislation Is Rewriting Rules for a System It Does Not Understand

  • Subir Ghosh

23 March 2026
 
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War Effects / Surat Exodus Feature
The decision to leave is rarely about wages alone; it is about whether a city can sustain the basic conditions that make staying possible. In Surat, those conditions have collapsed.

Paying for a Distant War: Surat's Migrant Textile Workforce Is Leaving 'Coz It has Run Out of Gas

  • Richa Bansal

27 March 2026
Textile Recovery / Summit Report / III Feature
The materials entering textile recovery systems were designed for performance and price, not recoverability—a contradiction that sorting technology alone cannot resolve, regardless of its sophistication.

The Recycling Plant Cannot Fix What the Factory Got Wrong

  • Subir Ghosh

27 March 2026
 
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Tariff Impact / Fast Fashion Commentary
Much of Shein’s production takes place in the so-called “Shein village” in Guangzhou, China, where workers often sew for 12–14 hours a day under poor conditions to keep pace with the demand for new items.

Shein, Temu and the Tariff Fallout: Why Australia Became Fast Fashion's New Frontier

  • Mona Mashhadi Rajabi
  • Lisa Lake
  • Martina Linnenluecke
  • Yun Shen

12 June 2025
Deep Focus / Africa Seconds / II Interview
A man pulls a cart through the crowded Kantamanto market in downtown Accra. The market is home to more than 30,000 traders, who sell most commonly secondhand clothing, and it the West African hub for used clothing from the west.

Conversation about Waste Driven by People from Outside with Flawed Data to Push their Agenda

  • Subir Ghosh

11 June 2024
 
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