Commentaries

Major Western brands, under refractory pressure from zealous animal welfare and social welfare groups based in the US, have shunned kangaroo leather. What now begs attention is how the Australian meat/leather industry should grapple with a ban that is bound to have a far-reaching adverse impact. And, what would be conservation's answers?

A painstaking, exhaustive analysis of documents by University of California (UC) researchers has revealed that the chemicals industry used all nefarious tactics in the playbook to delay public awareness of PFAS toxicity and, in turn, delay regulations governing their use.

In a landmark victory for the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), the Delhi High Court has passed an interim order restraining two private entities from using the ‘khadi’ mark.

If the just-concluded COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt is anything to go by, the fashion industry has cut a sorry figure. The industry has made progress in recent years, but all that pales into insignificance given the goal that shifts farther by the day. Add to that the rampant greenwashing, the constant self-adulation, and the abject failure in not letting the Global South into the entire process. A texfash.com take on the Conference.

The recent study 'Wealth in Waste: India’s Potential to Bring Textile Waste Back Into The Supply Chain' has a problem—that of sample size as well as sample selection. There is an imperative need to revisit the numbers, and bring out an updated/revised edition. A texfash.com analysis.

The Treadler project of the H&M Group, hailed as a fashion gamechanger, is being shelved for not growing fast enough. Ironically, the Treadler project served as a 'case study' on the Higg Inc website for making a difference. And, Higg has been time and again accused of furthering the interests of companies like H&M.

The Big Daddies in the textiles-apparel-footwear-fashion ecosystem are the hands behind some of the most followed sustainability benchmarks. The charge is that they have been using the cloak of opaqueness and secrecy and also the lack of credible data to greenwash themselves. texfash.com recaps the brouhaha.

The importance of the textiles-apparel sector in terms of share in manufacturing has been growing over the years, but its share in global apparel exports has been more or less stagnant, even falling marginally at the last count. If India has to become a global sourcing destination, a cursory look at the backdrop is paramount.

The coalition of NGOs spearheading the call for boycott of cotton from Uzbekistan has lifted its ban. So, do we have a new player in town?

The apparel industry of Sri Lanka has recovered considerably from the COVID-19 shocks. But now, it has to wade through a debt crisis.