Home › From Field to Shelf - Why is cotton always the industry punch bag?
 

Keywords :   


From Field to Shelf - Why is cotton always the industry punch bag?

2020-02-05 12:31:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Having worked in the cotton industry for many years (including as a consultant to BASF's e3 sustainable cotton programme), one of the things I've noticed about clothing brands is that when pressed on sustainable production they almost always blame cotton for their woes, writes Robert Antoshak, managing director at Olah Inc. Why is this?

Tags: the field industry bag

Category:Consumer Goods and Services

Latest from this category

All news
06.12Warm Welcome hubs an 'important' helping hand
06.12Failed Sarah Ferguson-backed app received 1m taxpayers' money
05.12Five takeaways from the blockbuster Netflix Warner Brothers deal
05.12Shoppers loved the 'fabric queen'. Then, order by order, her story fell apart
05.12Jamie's Italian to return six years after collapse
05.12US hits out at EU's 'suffocating regulations' after it fines Elon Musk's X
05.12Disruption as flights resume at Edinburgh Airport after outage
05.12Martin Lewis on what people misunderstand about credit scores
Consumer Goods and Services »
06.12Introducing USMEFs new chair
06.12This Week in Agribusiness, December 6, 2025
06.12This Week in Agribusiness, December 6, 2025
06.12Warm Welcome hubs an 'important' helping hand
06.12FFA Chapter Tribute: Megan Wilde, Santa Maria, Calif.
06.12FFA Chapter Tribute: Megan Wilde, Santa Maria, Calif.
06.12Failed Sarah Ferguson-backed app received 1m taxpayers' money
05.12Five takeaways from the blockbuster Netflix Warner Brothers deal
More »