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What the fashion industry has to do with microplastics pollution (and everything you need to know about EU initiatives to tackle microplastics)

The European Commission has microplastics on its agenda. But what initiatives are there to tackle the release of microplastics and what measures are being put in place to reduce the impact of microplastics on the environment? FashionUnited lists them. As always, we start at the beginning: with what microplastics are, why there are concerns about...

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Estée Lauder joins sustainability challenge as exclusive partner

Estée Lauder has joined the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory Sustainability Challenge: Beyond Plastics, as an exclusive partner. Estée Lauder will provide funding for awarded proposals, as a part of its commitment to support research that will promote innovation in sustainable packaging. The ISS National Lab Sustainability...

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Asos sets “ambitious commitments” on plastic packaging

Online retailer Asos has signed up to Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, a global initiative rallying more than 400 businesses and governments behind a positive vision of a circular economy for plastics, in which it never becomes waste or pollution. London-based Asos is the principal online retailer to sign the...

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Fast Retailing (Uniqlo) to reduce single-use plastic by 85 percent

Fast Retailing, the parent company of Japanese casual brand Uniqlo, has pledged to eliminate the use of unnecessary plastic throughout its supply chain and to reduce the amount of single-use plastic handed to customers by 85 percent, or around 7.800 tons annually, by the end of 2020. Stores in 12 countries will switch from plastic shopping bags...

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Adidas pledges to make more shoes using recycled plastic waste in 2019

It looks like reducing plastic waste is the cause closest to Adidas’ heart. The sportswear brand announced ambitious plans to increase the production of shoes containing recycled plastic waste from five million pairs in 2018 to eleven million pairs in 2019. Such growth will be possible thanks to a collaboration with Parley for the Oceans, the...

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Hundreds of companies sign global commitment to eliminate plastic pollution at source

Over 290 companies representing 20 percent of all plastic packaging produced globally have signed a global commitment to end plastic waste and pollution at the source. The initiative was led by UK charity Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with UN Environment. Fashion companies such as H&M, Walmart, Burberry, Target and Marks & Spencer...

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Ban on plastic is fueling new luxury accessories and fashion alternatives

Last week, while on holiday in Ibiza, the gin tonic I ordered at the quiet end of a beach club on Playa d’en Bossa was served with a bamboo straw. A sustainable, recyclable straw I was told, that sees the ban against plastic going global from Seattle to London to, well, Ibiza. According to Coastal Care, humans have made enough plastic since the...

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Adidas x Wanderlust launch yoga collection made from recycled plastic

London - Adidas is upping the game on its pledge to stop using virgin plastics in its collections, as the sportswear giant launches a yoga collection with Wanderlust and Parley for the Oceans made from recycled ocean plastic. The new yoga collection, named Adidas x Wanderlust, features 42 pieces for women, including crop tops, leggies, and...

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Stella McCartney teams up with Parley for the Oceans Plastic Program

London - Fact: by 2050 there will be more plastic in our oceans that fish. Every minute the equivalent of a dump truck full of plastic filters into the world's oceans. And everything we wash our synthetic garments, we are adding to the problem. Plastic pollution is flooding our oceans and environment and unless something is done now, we are all...