Ecotextile News

Cotton LCA: The need to do more than score

Fri, 14 December 2018

Allan Williams takes an in-depth look at the pitfalls of the Life Cycle Assessments which so frequently divide the textile and apparel sector. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a popular tool for underpinning impact assessments of different textile raw materials and ...

Cotton LCA: The need to do more than score

VIDEO: Planet Textiles Pod – Forestry management

Thu, 13 December 2018

WAKEFIELD – In a filmed interview from the Planet Textiles Pod, Tricia Carey, Lenzing’s director of business development, discusses the threat of deforestation posed by unsustainable sourcing practices, and how the Austrian fibre producer works to combat this. This is ...

VIDEO: Planet Textiles Pod – Forestry management

Over 30 new textile chemicals to be restricted by EU

Thu, 13 December 2018

BRUSSELS – The European Union has initiated a 24-month transition period for the restriction of 33 chemicals used in the textile sector which are classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMR). The adoption of these CMR chemicals is now set out ...

Over 30 new textile chemicals to be restricted by EU

BACK ISSUE ARCHIVE

- Bank & Vogue joins Ellen MacArthur initiative
  
  Friday, 14 December 2018
  OTTAWA – North American post-consumer textiles firm Bank & Vogue has expressed its excitement at the...
  
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- Stella McCartney extends partnership wit...
- Jeanologia joins Sustainable Apparel Coa...

- Denim mill takes indigo dyeing to absolute limit
  
  Friday, 07 December 2018
  REINACH – Thailand-based Absolute Denim says it has switched 100 per cent of its indigo denim...
  
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- Greenpeace sees both detox progress and ...
- LCA confirms fluorine textile coating ri...

- Inclusive fashion a UK government priority
  
  Monday, 03 December 2018
  LONDON – The British Government has announced its plan to recruit a Fashion Disability Champion...
  
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- Dutch denim achieves Swan Ecolabel certi...
- AAFA launches new best practice resource

- Viscose collaboration cites progress after report criticism
  
  Wednesday, 12 December 2018
  BEIJING – The Collaboration for Sustainable Development of Viscose (CV) has passed several new...
  
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- Finland looks to forests for clothing in...
- New Canopy report on viscose, rayon purc...

- Bangladesh Alliance publishes final annual report
  
  Wednesday, 12 December 2018
  DHAKA – The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety has released its fifth and final annual report...
  
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- H&M living wage summit, ETI rates progre...
- Online map highlights modern slavery ris...

- Archroma Pakistan wins employment award
  
  Thursday, 13 December 2018
  KARACHI – Textile colour and chemical specialist Archroma’s Pakistan affiliate firm has, for the...
  
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- VIDEO: Planet Textiles Pod – Chemical ma...
- Fashion climate initiative launches in P...

Features
- Foundations of change
  
  Monday, 19 November 2018
  Upon the launch of most apparel sector initiatives, those organisations which have been instrumental in a start-up’s inception are thanked for their contribution. One name which crops up more often than most is C&A Foundation.
- The way to B
- SDGs offer opportunity for industry progression

Editor's Pick
- Hard Talk: fashion's blind spot
  
  Wednesday, 05 December 2018
  Tim Wilson spent 25 years helping retailers discover more about their supply base. Here, the former CEO of Historic Futures, talks passionately about why transparency is so critical to the apparel sector.
- REACH: benefit or burden?
- Consumers differ on what sustainability means