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Cambodia workers pay the price of Fast Fashion’s supply chain waste problem
An investigation by Unearthed has found that garment waste from clothes made for big fashion brands is being burnt in brick kilns in Cambodia.
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Take Plastic Free July one step further this year: hold the real polluters accountable
Reducing plastic waste in our everyday lives is important, but it’s time to hold the real polluters accountable.
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Ultrafast fashion giant Shein takes greenwashing to a new low: charitywash
In June, Shein, the largest online-only fashion retailer in the world, announced a donation of $15m to a NGO working with textile waste workers in Ghana.
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Bribery, fraud and large-scale greenwashing: WHY PLASTIC? exposes the grim reality of plastic ‘recycling’
Plastic has pushed our planet to the brink of one of the worst environmental crises in modern history. It’s a topic shrouded in confusion and misleading information.
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Imagine an economy of peace
Be it the climate emergency, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine or any of the multiple other intersectional challenges the world is facing today, we are, inexplicably, in a crisis of imagination.
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Coke vs. Pepsi – Who will lead us into the refill and reuse future?
Pepsi’s current amount of reusable or refillable packaging? Zero. Coca-Cola recently committed to making 25% of their packaging reusable or refillable by 2030 - can Pepsi rise to the challenge and be more ambitious than Coke?
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Poisoned Gifts
Nowhere is the failure of the fast fashion linear business model more visible than in the countries where many of these cheap clothes end up once their short lives are over. Greenpeace Germany went to Kenya and Tanzania to witness the problem of imported textile waste in these countries and to find out about some…
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How Fast Fashion is using the Global South as a dumping ground for textile waste
Nowhere is the failure of the fast fashion linear business model more visible than in the countries where many of these cheap clothes end up once their short lives are over. I went on a research trip to Kenya and Tanzania to witness the problem of imported textile waste in these countries.
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Big brands must seize the moment to end the plastic pollution crisis
If big brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Unilever have their way, plastic production could triple by 2050. Big brands must end their addiction to single-use plastic packaging and increase their investment in reusable and refillable systems.
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Global plastics treaty: big, bold step to end plastic pollution
The United Nations Environment Assembly announced the outcome of the UNEA 5.2 meeting adopting a mandate to open negotiations for a legally binding global plastics treaty that addresses the whole life cycle of plastic pollution in the environment, with negotiations opening later this year.