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Worldview: Africa’s Used Clothing Importers Dispute Waste Claims
🌍 Africa’s used clothing importers dispute campaigners’ waste claims. Speaking at the inaugural Textile Circularity Conference, organised by the Bureau of International Recycling, on Sep. …
California Wants Fashion Brands to Pay for Waste
California wants fashion brands to pay for their waste. Late last month, state legislators passed a bill that would make fashion brands responsible for keeping …
‘Oh my God, I can put a shoe on my head’: waste walks the runway at Sydney festival | Australian fashion
Over the weekend, a shed draped in 250 kilograms of clothing waste was constructed in Sydney’s Tumbalong Park, in the busy tourist precinct of Darling …
Blokecore, The Waste Land and Maggie Smith: the year in fashion | Fashion
The new catwalk: the arrival lounge Anything to declare? Airport dressing, Chalamet-style. Photograph: Jun Sato/WireImage The way celebrities dress to travel and walk through airport …
Remains of the day: how to use leftover cheese, meat and roast veg from Christmas day | Food waste
When Christmas Day lunch is over, the real food party can start. With the bulk of the work already done – potatoes roasted, sprouts boiled …
Are electric ‘composters’ the solution for food waste? Or a waste of time | Food waste
Michelle Cehn, founder of the popular Instagram account @vegan, built her reputation around her love for the planet – but food waste was something that …
Waste From Adidas, Walmart, Other Brands Fuelling Cambodia Brick Kilns
Waste from at least 19 international brands including Adidas and Walmart is being used to fuel kilns in brick factories in Cambodia, and some workers …
Don’t Waste Your Money on These 6 Clothing Items, Stylists Say — Best Life
We all know the feeling of getting caught up in the fitting room and purchasing something we wind up regretting. There’s something about the lighting, …
‘The missing link’: is textile recycling the answer to fashion’s waste crisis? | Fashion
The sun is always shining in the Swedish seaside town of Sundsvall, according to the staff of Renewcell, the world’s first commercial-scale textile-to-textile recycling factory. …
How Sports Partnerships Are Making Fashion’s Waste Problem Worse
In a single season, Major League Soccer — North America’s top football competition — goes through 13,000 pairs of cleats and 5,000 balls. These products, …
‘Not everybody wants to go dumpster diving’: the app fighting food waste the easy way | Australian lifestyle
Breezing past a bakery just before closing time to pick up cut-priced loaves has long been a thrifty-living hack. But it’s a time-consuming process that …
EU’s New Climate Proposals Include Plan to Make Fashion Pay for Clothing Waste
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed what would be the EU’s first law to improve soil health, aimed at curbing degradation caused by intensive farming …
EU Wants All Textile Waste Regulations Ready by 2028
The European Commission wants all planned regulations requiring fashion companies to produce clothes in a more sustainable way to be in place by 2028, the …
Fashion greenwashing glossary: what do ‘circular’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘zero waste’ really mean? | Fashion
It’s hardly news that greenwashing is rife in the fashion industry. Recently, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the European Union vowed to crack …
Should Fashion Pay for Its ‘Waste Colonialism’?
Every week, roughly 15 million items of old clothing are shipped to Ghana, unwanted discards largely from the wardrobes of North American, Chinese and European …
EU Sets Recycling, Reuse Targets to Cut Packaging Waste
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday new rules to reduce packaging waste through increased recycled content in plastic drinks bottles and targets for reuse of …
Fast-fashion giant Shein pledges $15m for textile waste workers in Ghana | Global development
Chinese fashion behemoth Shein might be the organisation least expected to win applause at an international conference on fashion sustainability, but that’s what happened at …
China Aims to Recycle 25% of Textile Waste By 2025
As well as recycling a quarter of the 22 million tonnes of textile waste accrued each year, the country is looking to produce two million …
How This Mexican Company Makes Sustainable Vegan Leather by Feeding Fruit Waste to Bacteria
Mexican biotechnology startup Polybion has developed and started production of a new, high-quality vegan leather that is produced using agro-industrial food waste as a raw …