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Why Trashing Old Clothes Is So Bad For The Environment
Got old clothes you’re planning to trash? You have lots of company. In 2013 alone, Americans discarded 15.1 million tons of clothing and other textiles, and 85 percent of that wound up…
Cambodia raises 2017 minimum wage for textile industry workers
Industry has created 600,000 jobs that sustain rural families and have spurred years of robust growth PHNOM PENH, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Cambodia agreed on Thursday to raise to $153 from…
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills 12
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 12 A fire broke out in a garment packaging factory just outside the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, police and witnesses…
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Industry has created 600,000 jobs that sustain rural families and have spurred years of robust growth PHNOM PENH, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Cambodia agreed on Thursday to raise to $153 from…
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Why Trashing Old Clothes Is So Bad For The Environment
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Whose backs are we standing on?
Written by Lewit Gemida Source: Global Citizen To many, child labor probably sounds like a thing of the…
Am I a fool to expect more than corporate greenwashing?
Written by Lucy Siegel Source: The Guardian The Italian economist Guido Brera warns we’re all complicit in a…
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14. May 2016
Fashion has become the wearable equivalent of empty calories
I swear they’re breeding. That when I leave the house for work each day, they get it on together and make lots of little fashion babies behind my back. It is the…
17. April 2016
Repost: 5 Truths the Fast Fashion Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The fashion industry gets a lot of flack these days. The excess, the overtly sexual advertising, the humanitarian issues, the waste, the lawsuits, the list goes on. The industry giants have dedicated…
2. April 2016
That $8 shirt seems like a deal, but it’s actually a huge problem
Written by Katherine Martinko Source: treehugger.com and Grist A new video from Grist explains why fast fashion is such a terrible idea and why it is imperative to move away from our obsession with…
9. March 2016
Can the throw-away fashion industry lead a new trend toward sustainability?
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: Priya Dadlani After oil, fashion is the most polluting industry on the globe, believes Simone Cipriani, founder of the Ethical Fashion Initiative. But as many industries, from…
16. March 2016
Whose backs are we standing on?
Written by Lewit Gemida Source: Global Citizen To many, child labor probably sounds like a thing of the past; a horrible consequence of rampant capitalism that countries like the United States managed…
10. September 2016
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills 12
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 12 A fire broke out in a garment packaging factory just outside the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, police and witnesses…
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09 November 2017
Why Trashing Old Clothes Is So Bad For The Environment
Got old clothes you’re planning to trash? You have lots of company. In 2013 alone, Americans discarded 15.1 million tons of clothing and other textiles, and 85 percent of that wound up…
10 October 2016
Cambodia raises 2017 minimum wage for textile industry workers
Industry has created 600,000 jobs that sustain rural families and have spurred years of robust growth PHNOM PENH, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Cambodia agreed on Thursday to raise to $153 from…
30 September 2016
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills 12
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 12 A fire broke out in a garment packaging factory just outside the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, police and witnesses…
10 September 2016
H&M factories in Myanmar employed 14-year-old workers
Fashion retail giant says it has taken action against its two factories after new book in Sweden raises fears about working conditions in the country Swedish fashion chain H&M worked with…
23 August 2016
Fire at “Ready Made Garments”-factory doused after 15 hours
After 15-hour of frantic effort, 13 units of fire service members doused the fire which broke out at Tropical Knitex factory in Chandra area under Kaliakoir upazila of the district early Saturday,…
23 August 2016
Two Faced Tragedy in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka is forced on her knees. The garment industry is ubiquitous with poor worker conditions, corruption, bad infrastructure and an environment in disrepair. The recent terror attack is another slap…
27 July 2016
These are the brands not telling you if their clothes are ethically made
Topshop, ASOS, Adidas and Ralph Lauren all scored really badly. Fashion Revolution and Ethical Consumer partnered up to create a Fashion Transparency Index that ranks companies according to the level of transparency…
23 July 2016
Brexit’s impact on vulnerable workers in global supply chains
Workers in a garments factory in Vietnam courtesy of the ILO Post Brexit, ETI’s Executive Director Peter McAllister has been thinking about the fallout for workers, their wages and their rights. He…
19 July 2016
Rana Plaza Owner, 17 Others Indicted in Connection with Factory Collapse
Eighteen suspects were charged in a Dhaka court on Tuesday with violating Bangladesh’s building laws by allegedly colluding to construct the Rana Plaza garment factory complex against code, before it collapsed, killed…
18 June 2016