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Green garments: Closed loop supply chains hard to achieve
2013-07-30 19:16:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The concept of closed loop supply chains sounds a laudable, if possibly Utopian ideal: a virtuous circle of production from cradle to grave and back to cradle again. However, the reality is proving harder to achieve for the clothing and textile sector.
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The green movement is not pro-science
2013-07-30 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Do many environmentalists hold anti-scientific positions? This idea, put forward by environmental journalist Fred Pearce and others, may have received some pushback (eg Anne Chapman earlier in this series but for me, it is merely a statement of the obvious. Consider that great scientific battleground of the early 21st century: embryonic stem cell research. Here is an issue where too many greens hold views indistinguishable from those of the Vatican. Greenpeace brought and won a lawsuit against the...
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Green Garments: Sustainable practices in Asia
2013-07-30 16:20:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Asian textile firms are seeing opportunities to go green and save money. Initiatives have helped factories in Bangladesh improve their environmental performance by cleaning up production, while the new administration in China is putting manufacturers under increasing pressure to improve environmentally sustainable practices.
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Green garments: Brands clean up their toxic chemical use
2013-07-30 15:38:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Environmental concerns focus on a range of pollutants in that water, from pesticides on cotton fields to dust storms caused by overgrazing in Inner Mongolia by cashmere goats.
Green garments: Eco-labels - good or greenwash?
2013-07-30 15:11:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The challenges of working out whether textiles are sourced, produced or manufactured ethically are magnified by the plethora of eco-labelling schemes that apply to the industry.
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