Could our clothes be killing us?
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Measure is part of package aimed at limiting pollution associated with cheap, imported clothes. France’s National Assembly has approved a series of initiatives aimed at reducing the appeal of low-cost fast fashion, particularly products from Chinese mass producers. Christophe Bechu, the Minister for Ecological Transition, hailed Thursday’s vote as groundbreaking, making France the first country […]
French lawmakers advanced a bill that seeks to rein in fast fashion’s impact on the climate, labor rights and the economy. The bill would ban certain “ultra-fast-fashion” companies like Shein from advertising and penalize them by up to 10 euros per individual item of clothing. It also would force fast-fashion retailers to include information on their products’ reuse, repair, recycling and environmental impact next to the product’s price. This is French lawmaker Huguette Tiegna. Huguette Tiegna:...
With jaw-droppingly low prices and a seemingly endless selection of trendy clothes, Shein has taken the world by storm -- and found itself in the crosshairs of French lawmakers who want to curb the excesses of fast fashion. Customers love the Chinese-founded firm's massive catalogue of ultra-cheap items, from $8
A pioneering bill to curb the rampant pace of fast fashion won unanimous approval in the lower house of the French Parliament, making France one of the first countries worldwide to target the influx of low-cost, mass-produced garments predominantly from China. The fashion industry is among the world's biggest producers of greenhouse gas emissions. France
Escalating tariffs on every piece of throwaway clothing contrast with Jeremy Hunt’s eagerness to host a multibillion-pound Chinese IPOIt was a pair of $0 faux fur boots that signalled a new low for the fast fashion industry last week. Spotted on an Instagram ad for US customers, it was the latest in an aggressive campaign by Chinese retailer Temu to win market share. Just when you thought fashion couldn’t get any more disposable – it just did.But fast fashion may have hit a roadblock: last week...
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioral economics, has died. He was 90. He died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a release from Princeton University, whose faculty he had joined in 1993. His cause of death was not provided. Kahneman, who also wrote the best-selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, helped debunk the notion that people’s behavior is driven by rational decision-making, and instead is often based on instinct. “Danny was a giant in...
Rachel Reeves will pledge today to transform the Treasury from a department of bean counters to growth drivers if Labour wins the general election.
Since the 1990s, fast fashion has enabled everyday people to buy the latest catwalk trends. But the sheer volume of garments being whipped up, sold and soon discarded is contributing to a global sustainability crisis.
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron described China's conduct as 'completely unacceptable'. He should know. It was he who, as PM in the early 2010s, encouraged closer relations with Beijing.
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