Podcasts
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Wednesday, 13 September 2023Podcast: Should QR codes replace clothing labels?
WAKEFIELD – The latest instalment of the Ecotextile Talks podcast series explores the motivations behind a campaign calling on the fashion industry to move away from conventional care and content labels in favour of digital alternatives. Steve… -
Tuesday, 05 September 2023
Podcast: Traceable viscose – back in black
WAKEFIELD – Philip Berman sits down with Caroline Ledl, head of product and application management at the Lenzing Group to hear about the company’s plans to ramp up its production of its spun-dyed viscose in Indonesia. Lenzing launched its ‘EcoVero’… -
Wednesday, 23 August 2023Podcast: Why organic cotton monitoring is out of this world
WAKEFIELD – In the latest episode of Ecotextile Talks, Jeffrey Thimm from Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) discusses an initiative exploring the potential of combining artificial intelligence and satellite technologies to monitor organic… -
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Podcast: Time fashion gets tough on Turkmen forced labour?
WAKEFIELD – The latest report from Cotton Campaign insists the time has come for the fashion industry to act conclusively on forced labour in Turkmen cotton fields, with human rights lawyer and researcher Allison Gill telling Ecotextile Talks that… -
Wednesday, 09 August 2023
Podcast: Australia trials voluntary textile circularity levy
WAKEFIELD – As an apparent global push to include extended producer responsibility (EPR) frameworks in legislation gathers pace, podcast host David Styles catches up with Claire Kneller, managing director of WRAP Asia Pacific, to discuss the… -
Tuesday, 11 July 2023Podcast: New test aims to verify organic cotton
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, Philip Berman catches up with John Murphy, Hohenstein’s technical director for Europe, for an update on the company’s testing and certification process for its new Oeko-Tex organic cotton standard… -
Monday, 17 April 2023Podcast: Perspectives on Rana Plaza
WAKEFIELD — A decade on from one of the fashion industry’s darkest days, a panel of industry experts come together as part of a special podcast examining the long-term impacts of the Rana Plaza catastrophe and assessing what progress has been made… -
Thursday, 02 March 2023
Podcast: How do fashion shoppers navigate sustainability?
Philip Berman sits down with Eva McGeorge, Lenzing’s Head of Marketing and Communications, to discuss the company’s recent survey on consumer attitudes to sustainability in fashion. Lenzing says the aim of its new survey – the results of which will… -
Thursday, 15 December 2022Podcast: Oeko-Tex tool addresses due diligence
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, hosted by Phil Berman, we hear from Oeko-Tex product manager Melanie Teuteberg regarding the company’s recently launched Responsible Business tool. The Swiss firm launched the solution in late… -
Thursday, 03 November 2022Podcast: How Timberland and Lenzing tackled traceability
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, we hear how apparel brand Timberland worked together with Lenzing to overcome a variety of challenges to launch a new traceable apparel collection that has credible, measurable, environmental… -
Friday, 01 July 2022Podcast: Unravelling the problem of organic cotton fraud
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, our cotton expert Simon Ferrigno tells host Phil Berman why he’d like to see a parliamentary-style inquiry into widespread fraud in the organic cotton sector. Ferrigno also talks about his recent… -
Wednesday, 29 June 2022New AI podcast launched by Ecotextile News
WAKEFIELD – Are you too busy to sit down in front of your computer to scour the latest news on environmental and social issues in the fashion sector? If so, you can now catch up easily through a new weekly podcast from Ecotextile News that we are… -
Tuesday, 31 May 2022Podcast: The biggest ESG risks in fashion today
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, Randy Rankin, Eurofins Consumer Products Assurance global client development director for North America, spells out the current key environmental, social and governance risks facing the textile and… -
Tuesday, 19 April 2022Podcast: Biopolymer lowers emissions and improves circularity
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, Alexa Raab, the global brand and communications manager for bio-materials with US chemicals giant DuPont, explains how the company's partially bio-based Sorona PTT helps to lower carbon emissions… -
Tuesday, 22 March 2022Podcast: Using Higg to assess product impacts
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, McKenzie Everett, an apparel developer with US cycling apparel brand Pearl Izumi, explains how the company uses the Sustainable Apparel Coalition's (SAC) Higg Index product tools. She tells our… -
Monday, 14 March 2022
Podcast: How to pinpoint climate and water impacts
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, we’re joined by Alisia Mätz, product manager of Oekotex’s STeP certification program to discuss the company’s new ‘Impact Calculator’ tool and how it can help textile mills to mitigate their… -
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Podcast: Re-thinking the rules of fashion
WAKEFIELD – In the latest podcast from Ecotextile Talks, former Timberland chief operating officer (COO) Ken Pucker shares some home truths about the success of current ESG (environmental, social and governance) frameworks in play across the fashion… -
Thursday, 13 January 2022
Podcast: Lenzing explains its new climate targets
WAKEFIELD – Our Ecotextile Talks podcast host Philip Berman talks to Lenzing's head of product management textiles, Caroline Ledl, about the company's plans to reduce the size of its carbon footprint. Lenzing became the first wood-based cellulosic… -
Thursday, 16 December 2021
Podcast: Lycra aims to expand its eco horizons
WAKEFIELD – In the latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, host Philip Berman speaks with the Lycra Company’s sustainability director Jean Hegedus to learn about how its eponymous stretch fibre can contribute to the textile industry's pursuit of supply… -
Thursday, 02 December 2021
Radio Show: Episode 5, Closing the loop with retailers and consumers
WAKEFIELD – In the final episode in our five-part documentary series on textile-to-textile recycling, we get to hear from retailers Bestseller and Filippa K about how and why they are tackling the issue of circularity in their supply chains. We also… -
Friday, 12 November 2021
Radio Show: Episode 4, EPR and the EU Waste Directive
WAKEFIELD – We look at the implications of extended producer responsibility (EPR) and the EU’s Waste Directive in the fourth episode in our five-part audio documentary on the textile-to-textile recycling industry. Speaking mainly to French… -
Friday, 05 November 2021
Radio Show: Episode 3, Sourcing feedstock for textile recycling
WAKEFIELD – The third episode in our new five-part audio documentary examines the challenges of sourcing enough of the right feedstock for chemical textile-to-textile recycling. Ecotextile Talks speaks to Södra’s Niclas Berg, whose job involves… -
Tuesday, 02 November 2021
Radio Show: Episode 2, Next-generation pulp from post-consumer textiles
WAKEFIELD – Following today’s timely announcement around deforestation at COP26, the second episode in this new five-part audio documentary on textile-to-textile recycling delves into how the ‘OnceMore’ process from Södra uses post-consumer textile… -
Friday, 29 October 2021
Radio Show: Episode 1, Södra sets out to tackle waste
WAKEFIELD – Ahead of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, we’re bringing to you part one of a new five-part audio documentary series, in affiliation with forest industry group Södra, that will explore how… -
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Podcast: Lenzing promotes biodegradability of fibres
LENZING – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, host Philip Berman is joined by Florian Heubrandner, the vice president of fibre manufacturer Lenzing’s global textiles business, to discuss the biodegradability credentials of its man-made… -
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Podcast: Hohenstein solution identifies GMO in cotton
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, host Philip Berman speaks with Harald Notz-Lajtkep, Hohenstein’s division manager, to learn more about a new quantitative method for assessing the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)… -
Friday, 20 August 2021Podcast: How Zalando uses Higg data to drive sustainability
WAKEFIELD – In the fourth episode in our series of Ecotextile Talks podcasts supported by Higg, our host Philip Berman talks to Zalando sustainability director Kate Heiny about how the online clothing retailer harnesses data to drive sustainability… -
Monday, 28 June 2021
Podcast: How the H&M Group helps rivals access suppliers
WAKEFIELD - In the third of our Ecotextile Talks podcasts supported by Higg, our host Philip Berman talks to Hanna Hallin, global sustainability manager with Treadler, the B2B service launched by the H&M Group last year to help rival companies… -
Monday, 14 June 2021
Podcast: Hohenstein brings order to textile chemistry
WAKEFIELD – In the latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, we hear from John Frazier, senior technical director at textile testing, certifications and product labels authority Hohenstein, about the organisation’s Eco Passport chemicals verification system.… -
Monday, 17 May 2021Podcast: The Higg MSI and Scaling Sustainability
WAKEFIELD – In our latest Ecotextile Talks radio show, Jeremy Lardeau, vice president of the Higg Index at the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), and Cash East, director of analytics at tech firm Higg discuss their work developing the Material… -
Thursday, 15 April 2021Podcast: The Higg Index - 10 years in the making
WAKEFIELD – Ten years on from the foundation of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the latest edition of our Ecotextile Talks Radio Show examines the progress of the Higg Index suite of tools that it helped to create. In this first episode of… -
Wednesday, 16 December 2020Podcast: the critical need for ‘sustainable’ forestry
WAKEFIELD – In the latest Big Closets, Small Planet podcast, founder of the environmental NGO Canopy, Nicole Rycroft, and chief commercial officer of Austrian fibre producer Lenzing, Robert van de Kerkhof, join host Michael Schragger to discuss the… -
Thursday, 03 December 2020
Podcast: Textile traceability: is blockchain the answer?
WAKEFIELD – Former BBC producer Phil Berman hosts our latest Ecotextile Talks Radio Show to find out how blockchain can be an important new tool for clothing retailers to provide real-time transparency in their supply networks when sourcing clothes… -
Wednesday, 25 November 2020Podcast: Is the SAC making a difference?
WAKEFIELD – Nearly a decade on from the establishment of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), this podcast explores the impact on sustainability of this innovative industry collaboration and speaks with the author of a recent report to find out… -
Wednesday, 11 November 2020Podcast: Sweden's textile chemical tax - part 2
WAKEFIELD - In the second part of our look at the Swedish government's proposed tax on chemicals in textiles, we talk to some of those in support of the project. Three experts join our host, Michael Schragger, founder of the Sustainable Fashion… -
Wednesday, 28 October 2020Podcast: Could Sweden’s chemical tax drive change?
STOCKHOLM – With a chemical tax on textiles set to come into force in Sweden that will incentivise companies to move away from harmful substances, the subject of the latest Big Closets, Small Planet podcast is whether such a regulatory framework is… -
Wednesday, 14 October 2020PODCAST: Is fashion a lost cause for sustainable investors?
WAKEFIELD – Sustainable investment expert Sasja Beslik explains why he thinks that fashion can be considered a "stranded asset", like coal or gas, but why - despite this - he still thinks it's worthy of investment. Beslik, who fled Bosnia when he… -
Wednesday, 30 September 2020PODCAST: Cracking textiles' chemical problem
WAKEFIELD – Ecotextile News expert contributor Phil Patterson argues that the way the textile industry uses chemicals is broken and offers a way forward. Patterson, chair of the MRSL Advisory Council and managing director at Colour Connections,… -
Wednesday, 16 September 2020PODCAST: Revisiting fashion's misinformation problem
WAKEFIELD - Our latest Big Closets Small Planet podcast revisits fashion's misinformation problem which was highlighted by a special Ecotextile News investigation - Busting Myths - late last year. Back then, we looked at some of the more… -
Wednesday, 29 July 2020Newscast: Forced labour and fashion in China
WAKEFIELD – We’ve just released episode two of the new series of Ecotextile Talks ‘behind the news’ broadcasts with our journalists John Mowbray, Simon Glover and Simon Ferrigno who give a round-up of the current situation on allegations of forced… -
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Newscast: Ecotextile Talks – Behind the News
WAKEFIELD – Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in our editorial newsroom? If so, why not have a listen to the first two episodes of our new series of Ecotextile Talks podcasts available on Apple, Google, Spotify and Deezer. Like… -
Wednesday, 24 June 2020PODCAST: How tax can help save the planet
WAKEFIELD – Femke Groothuis, founder and president of The Ex'Tax Project, explains the potential power of tax reform to transform the apparel industry at the scale and pace required. Groothuis, whose thinktank calls for the shift of taxation from… -
Wednesday, 10 June 2020Podcast: Breaking down barriers on climate change
WAKEFIELD – Breaking down mental barriers and reimagining communications on how to combat climate change is integral to aligning people around the world, argues Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes. Stoknes’ research into the psychology behind… -
Wednesday, 27 May 2020Podcast: Circular business models
WAKEFIELD - Circular business models, like clothing resale and subscription rental, are taking off - but to what extent can they replace today's retail models and deliver the radical sustainability improvements needed? Three industry pioneers join… -
Wednesday, 29 April 2020Podcast: COVID-19 - Are millions of workers at risk?
WAKEFIELD - Leading figures from across the industry join our host Mike Schragger, from the Sustainable Fashion Academy, to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on supply chain workers in our latest Big Closets Small Planet podcast. As millions… -
Wednesday, 15 April 2020Podcast: Is digital clothing the future of fashion?
WAKEFIELD – Two of the leading figures behind digital fashion house The Fabricant join our host Mike Schragger, from the Sustainable Fashion Academy, for our latest Big Closets Small Planet podcast. The Fabricant recently sold a piece of digital… -
Wednesday, 25 March 2020Podcast: The price of sustainability - $300bn
WAKEFIELD – Katrin Ley from Fashion for Good and Catharina Martinez-Pardo from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the authors of a new report on what it will cost to meet the industry's sustainability goals, join Mike Schragger from the Sustainable… -
Wednesday, 11 March 2020Podcast: Why fashion should not reinvent the wheel
WAKEFIELD – Lewis Perkins, president of the Apparel Impact Institute (AII), joins Mike Schragger from the Sustainable Fashion Academy, to outline his vision for accelerating change in the garment industry. Speaking in the first episode of a new… -
Wednesday, 27 November 2019Podcast: textile innovator transforms upcycled cotton
BARCELONA – As part of this year’s Planet Textiles sustainability summit Spencer Null, director of product development at Natural Fiber Welding, sat down with the Sustainable Fashion Academy’s Michael Schragger to discuss how his company upcycles… -
Wednesday, 13 November 2019Podcast: Lenzing CEO talks up environmental prospects
WAKEFIELD – Stefan Doboczky, the CEO of wood-based fibre supplier Lenzing, sat down with Mike Schragger from the Sustainable Fashion Academy to give a largely optimistic view of the big social and environmental challenges the textile industry faces…
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