fashion
Wearable waste 'breakthrough': Company creates 'tree-free' jumper from coconuts
Fashion garment is the world's first made from liquid waste, claims Australian biomaterial tech firm Nanollose
Stella McCartney announces UN sustainable fashion charter
Luxury designer reveals new UN charter at fashion conference in UK, ahead of official launch at COP24 next week
Interest soars in sustainable fashion
Global fashion search platform Lyst reports 47 per cent increase in searches using sustainability-related key words this year
Could the humble mushroom hold the key to greener industry?
Novozymes' microbial scientist Sara Landvik takes BusinessGreen on a stroll to learn about how mushrooms could help the world hit its Paris Agreement goals
Peacocks announces switch to bio-degradeable bags
Fashion retailer claims switch to bio-degradeable bags will help minimise its environmental footprint
MPs call on online retailers to explain impact of fast fashion
Environmental Audit Committee demands Amazon, Boohoo, ASOS, Misguided, and PrettyLittleThing come clean about their environmental impact
Will the fashion industry be dragged into the plastic debate?
Hubbub's Trewin Restorick warns the fashion industry could be hard hit by concern over microplastics
Future Jobs: The vegan fashion designer shaking up the world of wallets
Helen Farr-Leander, founder of Surrey-based vegan wallet brand Watson & Wolfe, lifts the lid on her work as a sustainable fashion entrepreneur
Four companies pioneering the clothing recommerce market
They're embracing partnerships to develop secondary retail apparel sources for consumers
MPs demand fashion bosses come clean on industry's pollution impacts
Environmental Audit Committee writes to industry executives demanding more detail on how fashion retailers are mitigating their environmental impact
Fashion industry accounts for more than a third of ocean microplastics, report warns
Washing an item of closing made of synthetic textile can release up to 700,000 microscopic fibres in the water
Green washing, literally: VClean opens environmentally-friendly dry cleaning facility
Company claims Watford facility is first in UK to utilise eco-friendly technology and biodegradable detergents, that result in waste water 'nearly pure enough to drink'
Burberry vows to end burning of unsold goods
Luxury goods giant promises to step up recycling and re-use efforts and pledges to end the use of fur
C&A launches 'world's most sustainable jeans'
'Cradle to cradle' jeans are made with sustainable materials and will retail for just €29
Green sneakers: Reebok launches plant-based trainers
Sportswear brand follows Stella McCartney and Nike into sustainable trainer sector with sneakers boasting a bioplastic sole
Study: Switzerland emerges as most 'deluded' country over waste levels
Study of 18,000 households around the world finds major gap between how much waste consumers think they generate, and how much food, clothing and possessions are actually going to waste
Are high street fashion retailers doing enough to combat viscose pollution?
Fashion industry practices have yet again come under the spotlight in a new report which points to only mixed progress on ensuring transparent, clean viscose production
Asos unzips sustainable fashion training programme
Online fashion retailer will train its core design team in techniques to cut waste from the fashion industry
MPs to examine environmental footprint of UK fashion industry
Inquiry will explore the carbon impact, resource use and water footprint of growing throwaway 'fast fashion' sector
Bridging the Gap: C&A Foundation backs fashion industry circular economy pilot projects
New €1.29m programme to back five innovative projects designed to tackle textile waste
'Make Fashion Circular': Burberry, Nike and Gap join forces to tackle textile waste
Major new global initiative draws some of the biggest clothing brands together to promote vision of a zero waste fashion industry
High street brands sign up to sustainable viscose plan amid pollution fears
Campaign group Changing Markets Foundation claims two viscose factories in Indonesia and India used by various UK fashion retailers are causing local air and water pollution
Primark publishes Global Sourcing Map in ethical supply chain push
Retail giant reveals locations of factories that supply over 95 per cent of its clothes, all of which are required to meet ethical and environmental code of conduct
E-Leather sews up £70m investment to take green material around the world
Green tech start-up makes leather from scraps that would otherwise head to landfill
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