Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
24 May 2021Op-Ed
by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu
24 May 2021|by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu
COVID-19 worsened the textile waste crisis. Now, it s time for the fashion industry to address this spiraling problem, say
Geoffrey Jones and
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful.
Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of fabric waste getting landfilled or burned every second, according to a 2017 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Captured carbon shipping fuel and heat-reflecting paint: The best green innovations of April 2021
Every month, numerous eye-catching and potentially transformational innovations are being developed to help businesses and nations turn their green ambitions into actions. Here, we round up six of the best from April 2021.
These innovations could help make sectors including shipping and energy more sustainable, and improve water access for those in need
As March comes to a close, we wave farewell to a month that saw the edie team covering Earth Day 2021 and the Biden Administration s first high-level international climate event, which saw new goals being set by nations including Japan, Canada and the UK.
Dining on disaster What goes into the Tasmanian salmon on your plate. Essay by Richard Flanagan. Documentary by Justin Kurzel and Conor Castles-Lynch.
If we are what we eat, what our food has eaten in turn matters. Yet it’s easier to find out what you’re feeding your dog than what you’re feeding yourself when you eat Tasmanian salmon.
Should you search the murky filth of a salmon pen to discover what constitutes the millions of feed pellets that drift down, you would quickly find yourself enveloped in a growing darkness. A veil of secrecy, green-washed and flesh-pink-rosetted, was long ago drawn over the methods and practices of the Tasmanian salmon industry, from its inexplicable influence over government processes to its grotesque environmental impacts. But the biggest secret of all is what the industry feeds its salmon.
A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal
by Louise Hunt on 29 April 2021
Three Chinese-owned fishmeal factories have opened in the Gambia since 2016, sparking tensions over allegations of competition with local fishers, overfishing, illegal fishing, and pollution.
In the town of Sanyang, unresolved disputes with the Nessim Trading fishmeal factory reached a flashpoint on March 15, triggered by the stabbing death of a Sanyang resident, allegedly by a Senegalese worker at the factory.
Hundreds of people took to the streets in protest, some of them torching the local police station and the fishmeal factory, and destroying boats and equipment belonging to Senegalese fishers.