{"id":132300,"date":"2024-07-11T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T04:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/temu-skims-fashion-nova-fast-fashion-brands-score-zero-on-human-rights-and-environmental-policies\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T04:30:59","slug":"temu-skims-fashion-nova-fast-fashion-brands-score-zero-on-human-rights-and-environmental-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/temu-skims-fashion-nova-fast-fashion-brands-score-zero-on-human-rights-and-environmental-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Temu, SKIMS, Fashion Nova: Fast fashion brands score zero on human rights and environmental policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132300\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Independent fashion watchdog Remake assessed big clothes companies on their environmental, human rights and equitability practices. At a factory\u202fin Zhejiang province on China\u2019s eastern coast,\u202ftwo mounds of discarded\u202fcotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor. Jacket sleeves, collars and brand labels protrude from the stacks as workers feed the garments into shredding machines.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first stage of a new life for the textiles, part of a recycling effort at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of the largest cotton recycling plants in China. Textile waste is an urgent global problem, with only 12 per cent recycled worldwide, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Even less &#8211; only 1 per cent &#8211; of castoff clothes are recycled into new garments; the majority is used for low value items like insulation or mattress stuffing.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is the problem more pressing than in China, the world\u2019s largest textile\u202fproducer and consumer,\u202fwhere more than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away every year year, according to government statistics. Most of it ends up in landfills. And factories like this one are barely making a dent in a country whose clothing industry is dominated by fast fashion\u202f &#8211; cheap clothes made from\u202funrecyclable synthetics, not cotton.\u202fProduced from petrochemicals that contribute to climate change, air and water pollution, synthetics account for 70 per cent of domestic clothing sales in China.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s footprint is worldwide: E-commerce juggernaut brands Shein and Temu make the country one of the world\u2019s largest producers of cheap fashion, selling in more than 150 countries. To achieve a game-changing impact, what fashion expert Shaway Yeh calls \u201ccircular sustainability\u201d is needed among major Chinese clothing brands. This means waste is avoided entirely. \u201cYou need to start it from recyclable fibres and then all these waste textiles will be put into use again,\u201d she said. But that is an elusive goal: Only about 20 per cent of China\u2019s textiles are recycled, according to the Chinese government &#8211; and almost all of that is cotton.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese cotton is not without a taint of its own, says Claudia Bennett of the nonprofit Human Rights Foundation. Much of it comes from forced labour in Xinjiang province by the country&#8217;s ethnic Uyghur minority. In May, the US blocked imports from 26 Chinese cotton traders and warehouses to avoid goods made with Uyghur forced labour. But because the supply chain is so sketchy, Uyghur cotton is used in garments produced in other countries that don&#8217;t bear the &#8216;made-in-China&#8217; label, Bennett says.\u201cMany, many, many clothing brands are linked to Uyghur forced labour through the cotton,&#8221; she said. They &#8220;hide behind the lack of transparency in the supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While China is a global leader in the production of electric cars and electric-powered public transport and has set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, its efforts in promoting fashion sustainability and recycling textiles have taken a back seat.According to a report this year from independent fashion watchdog Remake assessing major clothing companies on their environmental, human rights and equitability practices, there&#8217;s little accountability among the best-known brands.<\/p>\n<p>The group gave Shein, whose online marketplace groups about 6,000 Chinese clothing factories under its label, just 6 out of a possible 150 points. Temu scored zero. Also getting zero were US label SKIMS, co-founded by Kim Kardashian, and low-price brand Fashion Nova. US retailer Everlane was the highest-scorer at 40 points, with only half of those for sustainability practices.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/07\/10\/temu-skims-fashion-nova-fast-fashion-brands-score-zero-on-human-rights-and-environmental-p\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/07\/10\/temu-skims-fashion-nova-fast-fashion-brands-score-zero-on-human-rights-and-environmental-p\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/temu-skims-fashion-nova-fast-fashion-brands-score-zero-on-human-rights-and-environmental-policies\/\">Temu, SKIMS, Fashion Nova: Fast fashion brands score zero on human rights and environmental policies<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,15243],"class_list":["post-132300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-fast-fashion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}