16th- 20th September 2024
Ecotextile News
The purpose-led multimedia news platform for sustainability in the global fashion and textile industry.
We’ve reached the end of yet another great week here at Ecotextile News! You can view all of this week’s stories over at https://www.ecotextile.com/news/ but for now sit back, relax and let us catch you up with our hand-picked selection of the most important stories of the week????
Monday
??Fast fashion to now fashion - ‘quick commerce’ takes India by storm, Western brands eye an opportunity
??Raising standards - Aii and ZDHC prepare benchmarks for CO2 emissions and water use in Scope 3
??Fashion divestment - Finance company sells off fashion investments over sustainability concerns
??Electrify everything? - why a call to electrify textile manufacturing needs careful consideration
??Recycled polyester - could the industry move away from bottle-to-textile fibre recycling?
??New dawn disrupts - regime change raises hopes in Bangladesh – but protests threaten garment sector
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??As well as sending our new magazine to press on Monday, we also reported that the Ghana Used Clothing Dealers Association (GUCDA) has criticised a Greenpeace report which claimed nearly half of the used clothing exported to Ghana from the Global North was unsellable.
GUCDA described the report as "sensationalised", questioned its findings and argued that Ghana's second-hand clothing trade was an "essential part of the circular economy" which sustained millions of livelihoods.
Tuesday
??On Tuesday we released a new brilliant episode of Ecotextile Talks- Our host Philip Berman sits down with Claudia Kersten , managing director of the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) to discuss a cotton monitoring project which is literally out of this world.?
GOTS is working alongside the European Space Agency - ESA and artificial intelligence specialist Marple to monitor Indian organic cotton crops from space – using AI and satellite imagery to verify farming techniques and identify fraud.?
??We also saw Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) has launching a new guide to financial strategies which could help the global apparel and footwear industry access capital to fund supply chain decarbonisation efforts.
Aii's 'Brand Playbook for Financing Decarbonization', published with support from 汇丰 , offers 12 financial strategies which it says brands can employ to incentivise producers to invest in carbon reduction projects.
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Wednesday
??On Wednesday we reported that safe and sustainable alternatives could reduce the use of PFAS - the so-called 'forever chemicals' - in textiles and enhance reuse and recycling, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
EEA, an agency of the European Union which provides independent information on the environment, says textiles are one of the biggest sources of PFAS pollution in Europe.
??We also revealed that the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) and the Fair Labor Association have issued a joint call for Bangladesh’s interim government to focus on improving worker rights in the country’s garment, footwear, and travel goods industries.
Writing to Mohammad Yunus, chief advisor of the Interim Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the two organisations applauded the interim government’s focus on reforming local labour laws to align with International Labor Organization standards.
Thursday
??On Thursday, we revealed that the Sunshine State is poised to introduce a new Responsible Textile Recovery Act to combat unnecessary waste and promote the textile circular economy through new statutory measures.
Regulators in California point to figures outlining the textile sectors carbon emissions – estimated at a large 2% of the global total – as the reasons why the textile sector needs to up its game when it comes to waste and reuse.
??We also reported that 拉尔夫·劳伦 has already achieved its 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions goal, according to its new 2024 Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report.
The company reduced its absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions by 33% - against a FY20 base year - exceeding its Science Based Targets initiative -approved target of a 30% reduction by the end of the decade.
Friday?
??Today, we brought the news that garment workers in Cambodia have been granted a small increase in their minimum wage - from $204 to $208 per month - by the country's National Council on Minimum Wage.
It follows talks with employers, who said they were satisfied with the size of the increase, and workers who said they would still not have enough to meet their basic needs.
??Finally, we revealed that the Textile Recycling Association has called on the UK government to support the sector which it says is in danger of collapse.
The trade body is calling for an exemption on business rates; help with fuel, energy and insurance costs; and support with wage costs and staff shortages caused by Brexit.
??That’s a wrap on this week's Briefing! Don’t forget to check out our new magazine- and subscribe while you’re here so you never miss a week!??