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Fashion giant H&M steps up

Related Keywords: fashion, garment, H&M, labour, suppliers, supply chain, sustainability, Sweden, Textile, waste

Fashion brand H&M has become the first major retailer to list individual supplier details for each garment on its website to increase transparency in an industry with high risks of slavery and labour abuses.

The Sweden-based multinational’s move was hailed by workers rights groups who said it was a step forward, but added that the data may not be particularly meaningful to shoppers without additional information to put it into context.

Scientists have successfully modified a bacterial enzyme to break down polyester

Related Keywords: plastics recycling, Scientists have successfully modified a bacterial enzyme to break down polyester, textile industries, the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, tonnes of plastic bottles made of PET, University of Portsmouth, waste

The discovery could result in a more effective recycling solution for millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, made of PET, which currently have to undergo a complex chemical process to break them down into their respective monomers for reforming into virgin grade polyester fibres and other materials

Back in 2016, how an enzyme produced by bacteria living at a plastic bottle recycling site in Japan could digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

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