BANGALORE – More than 300 delegates from across the textile supply chain gathered today in Bangalore, India, for the 2017 edition of sustainability summit Planet Textiles. Stacey Dove reports.
With water consumption a key theme of this year’s event, Ecotextile News editor and Planet Textiles moderator John Mowbray noted: “Often when we talk about water use we get obsessed with metrics … we tend to forget about the communities where the textiles are produced.”
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