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EU clarifies packaging liability for brands ahead of PPWR start

Environment
Brand owners may carry legal responsibility for polybags, cartons and mailers even when external suppliers physically manufacture the packaging. The...

Sustainability becomes a management tool at the CHT Group

Sustainability
The 2025 Sustainability Report documents measurable progress in climate protection, transparency, and social responsibility In fiscal year 2025, the CHT...

Natural-Fibre Coalition presses EU to broaden textile ecodesign metrics

Environment
Make the Label Count warns that an excessive focus on recycled content and recyclability could unintentionally favour synthetics over...

Trusted data becomes Bangladesh apparel’s next competitive advantage

Sustainability
As buyers prepare for digital product passports, EPR and tighter sustainability claims, Bangladesh’s factories must compete not only on...

EU cuts ESRS data burden, but textile suppliers still need buyer-ready sustainability evidence

Environment
The European Commission’s simplification package reduces reporting volume for companies in scope; it does not remove the commercial need...

Basel Convention talks put textile-waste exports on notice

Sustainability
The central issue is no longer only recycling capacity: it is whether consignments marketed as reusable clothing can be...

Pakistan textile exporters urged to prepare for carbon audits and EU climate compliance

Environment
Energy efficiency is moving from a cost-saving option to a market-access requirement for Pakistan’s textile industry. Pakistan’s textile sector must...

Target expands Syre partnership to scale textile-to-textile recycled polyester

Environment
The retailer’s circularity strategy is moving from brand commitments toward material offtake, with home and apparel expected to be...

BGMEA and GIZ sign MoU to push Bangladesh RMG toward greener compliance

Environment
The May 2026–February 2028 partnership targets the issues now shaping sourcing decisions: EU readiness, energy efficiency, circularity, worker protection...

Levi’s backs regenerative cotton push in Pakistan’s Punjab belt

Cotton
The three-year initiative moves cotton sustainability from farm-level compliance toward landscape restoration, water productivity and farmer resilience. Levi Strauss &...

GOTS-Certified facilities rise 15% as textile due diligence tightens

Sustainability
The growth of GOTS certification shows how organic textile standards are becoming compliance infrastructure for brands and suppliers, not...

Under Armour joins U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol with traceable cotton pilot in Freedom collection

Sustainability
The move gives the sportswear brand access to verified farm-level environmental data and signals how traceability is becoming a...

India’s textile waste market could reach $3.5 Billion by 2030

Sustainability
New government-backed mapping shows India already recovers most textile waste, but future growth depends on formal recycling infrastructure, cluster-level...

The Lab reframes fashion sustainability around care, not just consumption

Sustainability
The biotech fashion-care brand’s new campaign argues that extending garment life must become part of fashion’s sustainability agenda, alongside...

BB Engineering takes textile PET recycling message to PRSE 2026 with VacuFil and COBRA

Recycling
At Amsterdam’s Plastics Recycling Show Europe, the German machinery maker is positioning textile-to-textile PET recycling and lower-cost melt filtration...

Levi’s faces twin pressure points as labour lawsuit and anti-climate proposal collide

Denim
The denim giant heads into its annual meeting with scrutiny from both labour-rights campaigners in Europe and anti-ESG activists...

Circulose and CTA push recycled lyocell closer to commercial scale

Recycling
The new agreement matters because it extends recycled cellulosic feedstock beyond viscose and into lyocell, a technically more demanding...

Digital product passports move from concept to compliance infrastructure

Sustainability
Forecasts point to explosive growth, but the real commercial story is that digital product passports are becoming a practical...

Naia makes Kingpins debut with recycled-content fiber pitch for softer, circular denim

Fibres
Eastman’s Naia platform is using Kingpins Amsterdam to argue that denim innovation no longer has to choose between authentic...

Saif Textile commissions 10MW solar plant to cut power costs and support margins

Sustainability
The move highlights how Pakistan’s spinning sector is increasingly turning to captive solar as a cost-control tool in a...
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