Dutch municipalities launch regional sorting center for textile processing

With the initiative all the participating parties aim to have better control of the textile processing chain and create more employment opportunities in the region at the…

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Argentina industrial output falls 4.1 percent in November

The drop was less sharp than the median expectation for a 4.5 percent year-on-year decline in a Reuters poll, and marked the smallest drop compared with the…

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Fast fashion means giant UK waste problem but more is now recycled or sold on

Sustainability non-profit organisation Wrap said in its ‘Valuing our Clothes: The Cost of UK Fashion’ report that cheap fast fashion means people are buying many more items…

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India’s women cotton farmers take lead with govt training

Gender roles in tradition-bound rural India are slowly changing with women having to take control as large numbers of working-age men migrate to cities for jobs and…

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Millenial pink the top global lip trend, Youcam finds

YouCam Makeup pulled data from 23.5 million virtual lipstick trials through the AR app. Twenty percent of lipstick try ons in the US and the UK were…

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Monsanto settles GM cotton dispute with three Indian seed firms

Ajeet Seeds, Kaveri Seed Co Ltd and Ankur Seeds were among six Indian companies that delayed payments to Monsanto, demanding a cut in royalties they paid to…

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Singapore makes its biggest ever illegal ivory seizure

The illegal cargo, discovered Sunday in a container from the Democratic Republic of the Congo being shipped to Vietnam via Singapore, also included a huge stash of…

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Alpine Group partners with HERFinance

As part of the partnership, Alex Apparels, the group’s Egyptian-based manufacturing division is playing a pivotal role in the development of a work-based training programme. Dubbed ‘HERproject’, the…

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