For almost a year now, India’s major textile hubs of Ludhiana, Surat, and Erode have been fighting an almost insurmountable challenge: rising imports, or arguably large-scale dumping, of man-made fibre fabrics that is affecting a sector valued at about $60 billion. In the last three years, MMF fabric imports, which attract mostly 20% duty, have doubled and most of it …
The whole family does. They’re one of the very few things we don’t buy second hand We’ve gone as long as is decent, also flouting the entirely preposterous notion that you have to replace bras every six to twelve months. The husband typically plumps for boxers from Rapanui – a UK manufacturer whose garments, designed to be sent back to …
Why is fast fashion a key driver of climate change? A 2021 report by a coalition of green groups accused the global fashion industry of developing a "dangerous addiction" to synthetic fibres made from fossil fuels in order to supply shoppers with rapidly increasing quantities of throwaway clothing. Fossil Fashion: The Hidden Reliance of Fashion on Fossil Fuels, says the …
Three quarters of the microplastic pollution in the Arctic ocean is made up of polyester fibres from clothing and other textiles, a study has found. In their study, Dr Ross and colleagues analysed microplastic pollution in samples of seawater taken from 26 feet under the ocean surface at 71 stations across the European and North American Arctic — including from …
