Phase one could be coming soon. The fast fashion sector is under the spotlight today, as one of its leading players gets ready to tell us its latest financial results. The british giant primark helped spearhead the rise of the industry, and its performance will come in for major scrutiny as the sector faces increasing pressure. British mps have scrutinised fast fashion and made a series of recommendations. These include a penny tax on every garment sold, in order to help fund more recycling, and moves to ban the incineration of unwanted clothes. In the uk alone, consumers send around 300,000 tons of clothes a year to incineration or landfill. The Environmental Campaign Group Friends of the earth says up to 64 of fabrics we wear are now synthetic, and these are damaging when burned or sent to landfill. The fashion sector employs around 60 million workers. The Walk Free Foundation estimates a0 Million People are living in modern slavery today, many of them in supply chains of western clo
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Still seen by many as outsiders. Plus why one man in japan is embrace the Cultural Heritage that he once wanted to hi. Im melissa chan here watching d. W. News asia thank you for joining us the Investigation Continues into the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in the u. K. Prosecutors say they were victims of a global ring of human traffickers by now we know they came from asia we dont know much more you may remember that early reports said they might be chinese next they might be vietnamese asia is where much of modern slavery in the world takes place almost 25000000. 00 people in asia are victims of slavery thats 6 for every 1066 percent of them go into forced labor. Burger and india china and pakistan have the highest absolute numbers of slaves but Southeast Asia sees a lot of activity poor job prospects natural disasters and military conflicts there are all factors behind waves of displaced people and migrants for more we have rachel smith with the Human Trafficking foundation w
Im melissa chan youre watching d. W. News asia thank you for joining us the Investigation Continues into the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in the u. K. Prosecutors say they were victims of a global ring of human traffickers by now we know they came from asia we dont know much more you may remember that early reports said they might be chinese next they might be vietnamese asia is where much of modern slavery in the world takes place almost 25000000. 00 people in asia are victims of slavery thats 6 for every 1066 percent of them go into forced labor and india china and pakistan have the highest absolute numbers of slaves but Southeast Asia sees a lot of activity poor job. Prospects natural disasters and military conflicts there are all factors behind waves of displaced people and migrants for more we have rachel smith with the Human Trafficking foundation with us rachel tell us what you know about Human Trafficking to the u. K. From asia lets start with china thats where investig
Im melissa chan youre watching d. W. News asia thank you for joining us the Investigation Continues into the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in the u. K. Prosecutors say they were victims of a global ring of human traffickers by now we know they came from asia we dont know much more you may remember that early reports said they might be chinese next they might be vietnamese asia is where much of modern slavery in the world takes place almost 25000000. 00 people in asia are victims of slavery thats 6 for every 1066 percent of them go into forced labor and india china and pakistan have the highest absolute numbers of slaves but Southeast Asia sees a lot of active. Poor job prospects natural disasters and military conflicts there are all factors behind waves of displaced people and migrants for more we have rachel smith with the Human Trafficking foundation with us rachel tell us what you know about Human Trafficking to the u. K. From asia lets start with china thats where investigat