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Brands urged to stop sourcing from China's Xinjiang over forced labour fearsMajor retailers from Adidas to Amazon asked to reconsider Chinese supply chains for risk of slave labour involving ethnic Uighurs. -
Supermodel and environmental activist Arizona Muse on selling sustainabilityThe face of Prada tells Eco-Business how she pushes fashion brands to curb their environmental impact.
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Western fashion brands that 'exploit' Bangladesh suppliers face blacklistingBangladesh's garment sector has been hit hard by the pandemic as $3 billion-worth of orders were cancelled or suspended. -
Covid-19 and meat plants in Asia: A contrast in fortunes to the United States?Unlike in North America and some parts of Europe, no major coronavirus outbreaks have been reported so far in Asia’s meat and seafood industry. Some companies believe early preventive measures played a role.
Factories Opinion
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Global emissions are way off target. What needs to happen?– The overall trend of rising emissions has not been reversed over the last decade meaning there is less time to reach the Paris goal. What urgent steps need to be taken? -
Why aren't global clothing brands responding to #MeToo?– The clothing industry should work harder to prevent and address gender-based violence in their supply chains. In order to do so, they first need to confront how badly their inspection or social auditing programs fail to protect women. -
Financing the green transition– Changing the energy-financing models of banks, or developing sustainability-linked loans and green bonds, will simply not be enough to facilitate the transition to a more sustainable economy. A new approach that is effective and scalable must take investors’ expectations fully into account.
Videos
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Clothing the Loop: Art made from textile scraps shows the true cost of fashion– An abandoned garment factory in Phnom Penh is reclaimed by artists in a haunting exhibition that depicts the impact of the fashion industry on the environment.
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Industry 4.0: When humans and robots go hand in hand– Amid concerns that the rise of industrial robots may soon render humans obsolete, Swiss automation giant ABB’s latest innovation may help shine a new light on what the future will look like when humans and robots can work together as partners.
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Indian rapping about Unilever's mercury mess makes a hit– More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.
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Disaster debris can become building blocks for a new life–
In Amsterdam a mobile factory, the size of two shipping containers, ingests rubble at one end, liquifies it into cement and spurts out Lego-shaped building blocks.
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