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December/January 2017
Issue #76
Features
China’s textile industry unveiled its responsible development goals to 2025 at last month’s two-day series of events in Shanghai where it partnered with other Asian textile producing nations as well as rubber-stamped its official collaboration with the ZDHC. John Mowbray reports China.
Opinion
Phil Patterson argues that clothing retailers’ current obsession with gross margins means the textile industry makes and sells clothes that no-one wants.
News
Speciality fibre maker, Lenzing, chose the Kingpins show in Amsterdam to launch Future Black, a new range of spun-dried fibres with excellent environmental credentials.
A four-page special on micro-plastics in the ocean starts with a look at the growing issue of microfibres which represent a serious threat to the world’s oceans, followed by a look at research which suggests harmful oceanic pollutants can lock on to these fibres, which magnifies their impact up the food chain.
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