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Joseph Winters

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Joseph Winters

Joseph Winters is Staff Writer at Grist.org.

 
 
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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
California Act / USAgain View / II Interview
Textile recovery debates increasingly revolve around infrastructure rather than technology, highlighting how logistics, regulation and market access shape the circular economy’s real operating limits.

California’s Textile EPR Ambition Hinges on Infrastructure and Local Regulation

  • Subir Ghosh

18 March 2026
 
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Rant Control / Shein Circularity Commentary
Corporate sustainability language has evolved beyond grand ecological promises into something harder to challenge—the rhetoric of everyday pragmatism and consumer common sense.

Rise and Shein: The Circularity Report That Laundered a Business Model in Plain Sight

  • Subir Ghosh

30 March 2026
Event Roundup / Yarn Expo Report
The textiles industry's most consequential transition is not happening in boardrooms but on sourcing floors, where sustainable fibres are steadily displacing conventional ones as the benchmark of quality.

Textiles Industry Quietly Rewriting what Innovation Means

  • Special Correspondent

30 March 2026
 
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Business of Innovation / KBCols Interview
The dyeing step in the textile industry contributes to 20% of freshwater pollution in the world, and is among the most polluting steps in the entire supply chain. This is what drove the founders of KBCols Sciences—Vaishali Kulkarni (Founder & CEO) and Arjun Singh Bajwa (Co-Founder & CTO)—to address this challenge.

Colours from Biodiversity: Pune Innovator Makes Hay with Agro-Waste Feedstock

  • Richa Bansal

10 August 2023
NextGen Materials / NFW Collapse Analysis
Natural Fiber Welding was once hailed as a pioneer of sustainable materials, but its downfall shows how investor impatience and brand reluctance to commit undermined commercial viability.

Harsh Economics and Natural Fiber Welding’s Collapse: Investors, Brands Should Share Blame

  • Subir Ghosh

12 September 2025