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Less than a month ago, the Ghana Used Clothing Dealers Association (GUCDA) released a report which contended that media reports of waste were gross over-estimates. These reports and also the campaigns are being driven by flawed data, argues GUCDA General Secretary Edward Atobrah Binkley in this riveting interview with texfash.

One of the many African countries that has been repeatedly mentioned in the swathe of Western media reports about the impact of the second-hand clothing trade is Kenya. But the sector is huge in the country in its spread, and mitumba touches the lives of millions. Yet, the opinion of the Mitumba Consortium Association of Kenya (MCAK) has largely gone unheard. The Chairperson of the MCAK, Teresia Wairimu Njenga, tells texfash that much of what abounds is misinformation.

There's fashion that generates waste, and then there's fashion's packaging that generates more. Even as the industry is being hauled over coals, the subject of packaging, though discussed, remains by the sidelines. Iva Jestratijevic, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Consumer Insights and Innovation, University of North Texas, throws light on trends.

If denim is so much about finishing, Italian machinery major Tonello has remained a leader with its array— from washing to dyeing machines— and unique range of garment finishing technologies. Alice Tonello, the Marketing and R&D Director at the family-owned business, tells texfash.com the role that technology is set to play in denim manufacturing in the days ahead.

Earlier this month, the Textile Recycling Association (TRA) set alarm bells ringing in the UK when it warned of an imminent collapse of the textile recycling sector due to global market challenges. It's complicated, and TRA Chief Executive Officer Alan Wheeler helps disentangle the threads in this deep dive with texfash.com.

UK nonprofit Earthsight’s investigations reveal nearly a million tonnes of tainted cotton from some of the most notorious estates in Brazil to clothing manufacturers in Asia, and being supplied to fast fashion behemoths H&M and Zara.

Almost nothing has changed in the production of indigo for over a century. But now, French biotech innovator Synovance is producing dyes from microorganisms using industrial waste as raw material. Co-Founder and COO Efi Lioliou explains how the company has been able to produce sustainable dyes using biochemical methods.

A media toolkit for cotton targets well-meaning journalists to write stories from the ground. texfash.com talks about that and stresses on the need for cotton trade associations to be a more open source for data and stories from the ground.

The Red Sea crisis is far from over, and the fashion world is having a trying time grappling with it. What is now needed is a West Plus One policy—a sellers’ strategy. Keep supplying to the West, but build alternatives too so that you can export to others when routes to the West are disrupted.

All things cotton and the global market scenario from regenerative to organic, the urgent imperative to go sustainable and more is what Ben Eaves, Director of Liverpool Cotton Brokers Ltd, discusses in this freewheeling tete-a-tete with texfash.com.