Canada’s environmental department is prioritizing the issue of plastic waste from the apparel and textile industry—and it’s turning to the public for feedback as it charts the path forward. The ...
Four CNA insurers have asked a court to declare they owe no duty to defend or indemnify a policyholder in a PFAS suit. On ...
Pollution released from our textiles is smaller and more irregular in shape than previously thought, according to new research led by The University of Manchester. In a study published in Scientific ...
On a sunny September afternoon in Manhattan, a couple of days before the start of Climate Week NYC, a Sourcing Journal reporter went hunting for a mound of textile waste. This was trickier than she ...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency fined an Oakdale-based textile manufacturer $22,088 for hazardous waste violations, the agency announced Monday. MPCA staff found multiple violations related to ...
American Circular Textiles (ACT), a New York City-based coalition of organizations working to drive circularity in the U.S. fashion sector, submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency ...
The textile industry produces a substantial portion of the world's waste, with only about 12% of fiber materials ending up in recycling. Textiles also account for much of the microplastics in oceans.
The governments of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam are throwing their support behind a $43 million program, phased in over five years, that will tackle chemical pollution in textile ...
Most individuals are unaware that post-consumer textile pollution is a serious public health hazard and an issue of tremendous environmental racism that disproportionately affects communities in the ...
Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs, Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry has warned that the rising tide of textile and fashion waste flooding our oceans poses a growing threat not only to marine life ...