Fashion needs to do more on workers' rights and the environment says new report

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The fashion industry accounts for 8% of the world's global greenhouse gas emissions with that figure set to increase.

Retailers including H&M, Marks and Spencer, Nike, The North Face and Puma which all scored above 50%.

Sarah Ditty, the report author and policy director at Fashion Revolution, said there is still a"long way to go", but the improved figures show the industry is becoming"less opaque". "One of the most surprising and positive stories that's come out of the Fashion Transparency Index over the last couple of years is there's been a real paradigm shift in massive brands and retailers publishing who their suppliers are, where their clothes are manufactured, what the processing facilities are further down the supply chain and even what the sources are of their raw materials.

 

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Raise just 5/10 penny in a clothes here in UK or EU can Change a families life Back in Bangladesh poor low paid Garments worker. If 5/10 taka Adding in a Hours its a lot For Bangladeshi worker but its nothings to UK customers.

They’ve been saying this for 20 years.... 🙄🙄

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