Ecotextile News

Aid by Trade, Better Cotton forge new partnership

Fri, 28 January 2022

GENEVA/HAMBURG – The Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) – which manages the Cotton Made in Africa (CMiA) initiative – and Better Cotton have announced that they’re establishing a “new form of collaboration”. The pair, which entered a strategic partnership in 2012 to ...

Aid by Trade, Better Cotton forge new partnership

AAFA urges factories to pay garment workers

Fri, 28 January 2022

KARNATAKA – The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) is urging factory owners in the Indian garment hub state of Karnataka to honour a hike in the minimum wage which has gone unpaid since April 2020. More than 400,000 garment workers who make clothes for ...

AAFA urges factories to pay garment workers

WRI issues call to action on climate change

Fri, 28 January 2022

WASHINGTON DC - The World Resources Institute (WRI) has issued a six-point call to action to the apparel industry to put the sector back on track to meet the 1.5C pathway of the Paris Agreement on climate change. WRI consultant Michael Sadowski and Cynthia Cummis, ...

WRI issues call to action on climate change

BACK ISSUE ARCHIVE

- New platform for textile-to-textile recycling
  
  Friday, 28 January 2022
  TALLINN - A new online platform - which bills itself as the "Uber" of post-consumer...
  
  Read More
- Green Theme’s Empel products certified P...
- SME innovators secure funding

- More labs approved to test for GM cotton
  
  Thursday, 27 January 2022
  AMSTERDAM – A total of 21 laboratories worldwide have now been approved to carry...
  
  Read More
- Lycra develops insulation from textile w...
- Research: Bangladesh’s female workers hi...

- Decathlon launches rental ski and hiking wear
  
  Wednesday, 26 January 2022
  LILLE – Sporting goods retailer Decathlon has linked up with rental platform...
  
  Read More
- Gore Fabrics is awarded GRS certificatio...
- Plastic recycler to establish plant in F...

Sponsored Content
- James Heal advances offering in the Americas
  
  Wednesday, 05 January 2022
  Textile testing expert, James Heal, has announced the opening of their first US-based office and a new network of distributors, enabling them to better service their customers in the Americas. Not only is the Sterling office now ready to support customers, but they...
  
  Read More

- Moncler pledges to ban animal fur
  
  Tuesday, 25 January 2022
  MILAN – Luxury fashion brand Moncler has pledged to remove animal fur from its...
  
  Read More
- EU 'to unveil mandatory due diligence la...
- Unifi launches new transparency certific...

- ASOS extends ties with Anti-Slavery International
  
  Tuesday, 25 January 2022
  LONDON – Fashion retailer ASOS has agreed a new three-year partnership with...
  
  Read More
- IKEA on track to be climate positive by ...
- Resale platform Trendful secures new fun...

- Parade launches underwear recycling initiative
  
  Monday, 24 January 2022
  NEW YORK - Sustainability-focused underwear brand Parade has linked up with...
  
  Read More
- Sateri subjects Chinese mills to Higg FS...
- JC Penney, Decathlon join ZDHC programme

Features
- This marriage could one day revolutionise dyeing
  
  Monday, 20 December 2021
  I’m a textile dyer and, with over 30 years’ experience in the industry I’ve seen a few things come and go in terms of the ‘next big thing’ but the fundamentals of how dyes remain intact and attached (or not) to fibres hasn’t changed one bit. Some dyes sit within or on a...
  
  Read More
- Viscose manufacturers scale 'alternative' fibres
- BGMEA - brands will pay more for sustainability