Source: Will We Ever Be Able to Recycle Our Clothes Like an Aluminum Can?

Spread the loveSICILY – When one thinks of the main cotton-growing countries in the world, Italy is not a nation … Continue reading “Haelixa and OVS partner on Italian traceable cotton ”…

Leading fashion brands including H&M, Inditex, Kering and Stella McCartney have joined a new collaborative initiative to reduce deforestation and emissions by purchasing low-carbon alternative …

Kering has issued new guidelines intended to help its brands make accurate sustainability claims and avoid greenwashing Source: Kering issues guidance on making green claims – Apparel Insider

Kering has issued new guidelines intended to help its brands make accurate sustainability claims and avoid greenwashing Source: Kering issues guidance on making green claims – Apparel Insider

This month, fast fashion brand Zara released a limited edition line of “sustainable fashion” made of polyester created from captured carbon emissions. — Leggi su www.euronews.com/green/2022/06/26/c…

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‘Bio-based’ synthetic materials are here, and the hope is that they will replace polluting fossil fuel-based ones, but when will this be achieved and what is the current scope for scali…

Using data from the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Textile Exchange, the World Resources Institute (WRI) estimated apparel sector emissions to be 1.025 gigatons CO2e in 2019, or 2% of global emi…

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CHINESE STUDY CLAIMS RECYCLED POLYESTER PRODUCTION HAS 10x CO2 EMISSIONS OF VIRGIN POLYESTER: Research from China claims the carbon footprint of waste … 90 comments on LinkedIn Source: Brett …

The retailers must pay a total of $5.5 million for claiming bamboo-derived rayon textiles were environmentally friendly. Source: FTC Fines Walmart, Kohl’s for Bogus Bamboo Marketing

In a series of 3 articles, I hope to shed some light on the absurdity and injustice of many of the claims ‘sustainable’ fashion has leveled against silk. Source: Silk: Caught in a Web o…

In a series of 3 articles, we examine the history and significance of alpaca farming in Peru and unravel the truth about who benefits from characterizing alpaca farming as environmentally harmful. …

From the perspective of European consumption, textiles have on average the fourth highest negative life cycle impact on the environment and climate change, after food, housing and mobility. A shift…

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Commercial scale boost for recycled viscose filament Source: Commercial scale boost for recycled viscose filament

Among a host of challenges facing the fashion industry in light of climate change, the sourcing of natural fibres is likely to become more difficult. Diversifying supply chains is only a temporary …

SINGAPORE – Traceability solutions specialist FibreTrace has announced that it has been awarded GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certification — Leggi su www.ecotextile.com/202112132872…