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The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has launched Textiles 2030, a ten-year programme for clothing and textiles that seeks to slash the environmental impact of UK clothing and home fabrics through practical interventions along the entire textiles chain.

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You might think that the pandemic has forced us to rethink our shopping habits and become more environmentally conscious, buying less from fast fashion brands and moving to a slower pace of consumption. Think again. Fast fashion juggernaut Boohoo’s profits have soared during the last year. Meanwhile, despite the collapse of Philip Green’s Arcadia Group, Asos has now acquired half of the shopping empire (including Topshop, Topman and Miss...

May 27, 2021 Oceania has become the latest region to form a Plastics Pact, which has set out targets to reduce plastics waste by 2025. The Anzpac Plastics Pact unites businesses, NGOs and governments from across the plastics supply chain in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands behind a “shared vision” of a circular economy for plastics, where it never becomes waste or pollution. Led by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), it has set out four targets to achieve by...

3 hours ago How will advances in the way we think about energy and infrastructure deliver a sustainable quality of life? In January 2022, the leading experts will come together at Expo 2020 Dubai to discuss how the latest innovations in renewable energy and smart city technology can drive solutions to the global challenges set to define a generation. Between January 13-18 ‘In the Future, How will we Live?’ will be the focus of activity in the UK Pavilion, seeking to tackle some of the bigg...

The 5p charge for a single-use plastic bag doubled on Friday and now applies to all businesses in England, though campaigners are urging for an outright ban. Previously, only companies with 250 employees or more had to apply the fee. From May 21, all corners shops and supermarkets must apply the charge which has been raised to 10p. Government reports on the success of the 5p plastic bag charge introduced in 2015 claim sales of plastic bags have...

England to begin charging for all single-use plastic bags Englands charge for single-use plastic bags will double to 10 pence. Currently, the bags are 5 pence and will go up to 10 pence on May 21. The charge on bags was introduced in major supermarkets in 2015 and new data shows the average person in England now buys just four single-use plastic bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with 140 in 2014. This equates to a 95 percent cut in plastic bag sales in major supermarkets Along w...

The industry is estimated to have produced around 2.1bn tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018 alone – the equivalent to the combined emissions of France, Germany and the UK A cross-party group of MPs has continued to probe how the UK fashion industry is implementing initiatives to drive sustainability and improve its social impact – with executives from Primark and the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) the latest to take part in the Environmental Audit Committees Fixing Fashion ses...

Cost of plastic bags to double The cost of a single-use plastic bag is to double to 10p on 21 May, the government has announced. As part of the plans all English businesses will be subject to the increase. In 2015 a 5p charge on plastic bags was introduced. A survey from not-for-profit organisation Wrap (Waste and Resources Action Programme) revealed that 69% of respondents were either "strongly" or "slightly" in favour of the charge when it was first introduced in 2015, and that has increased ...

Primark: ‘We can deliver sustainable clothing at value prices’ Primark is confident that it can produce sustainable clothing at value-led prices, the retailer told MPs at yesterdays Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) session. Speaking at the cross-party environmental audit committees (EAC) Fixing fashion: Follow up session on 28 April, Katharine Stewart, corporate responsibility lead at Primark, said: “We are adamant that we stand for offering value. For many of our customers it is how ...