Herausgeber_in: Colour Connections

Autor_in: Phil Patterson

Schlagwörter: Ausrüstung, Chemikalien, Circular Economy, Fasern, Färben, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lederproduktion, Lieferketten, Nachhaltigkeit, Textilindustrie, Umweltaspekte

Kurzbeschreibung:

The fashion industry has to change its relationship with chemicals as a matter of urgency.
The way in which chemicals are currently used and disposed of makes textiles the second most polluting industry in the world. Furthermore, the extraction, production, transportation, and remediation of those chemicals are a significant contributor to climate change.
As world fibre consumption passes 100 million tonnes per annum, the time has come to take a step back and challenge whether current, single-use models for chemicals used in the conversion of fibres to finished textile products should be allowed to continue.
Chemicals are used in yarn spinning, weaving, knitting and wet processing (e.g. dyeing, printing, finishing, laundry) and are typically used once only. After use in a particular process, they are either passed to the next actor in a supply chain on a product, removed and dumped into the environment, or partially remediated and dumped into the environment.
This can be described as a single-use linear model because there is usually no attempt to recycle or reuse the chemical prior to disposal.
This report is aimed at providing chemical suppliers and chemical users in the supply chain with recommendations and suggestions on how to move away from single-use linear models and increase the recycling and reuse of textile chemicals – referred to in the report as non-linear use models. The recommendations and suggestions for change include a call for the wider use of existing good practice and the need for research and development. The intention is to highlight what is possible, what should be possible and what could be possible. This therefore raises many questions that will need to be addressed from both a technical and behavioural perspective.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 56 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: PACE Platform for Accelerating the circular economy

Autor_in: Alvise Lisca, Jessica Feeley, Andrés Oliva Lozano, Ke Wang

Schlagwörter: Bekleidungsindustrie, Circular Economy, Klimawandel, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lieferketten, Menschenrechte, Nachhaltigkeit, Transformation, Umweltaspekte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Textiles have long been an integral part of our daily lives and society, providing employment for hundreds of millions of people and creating tremendous economic value. However, the industry’s significant ecological footprint, as well as its health and social risks, have come under increasing scrutiny. There is urgent need for transformation.
How can circular strategies contribute? Three objectives have been formulated based on converging visions of a circular economy for textiles: inputs for textiles are safe and recycled or renewable; textiles are kept in use for longer; and textiles are recyclable and recycled at end-of-use.
Researchers have already documented the challenges from the textiles value chain today, the need for a transition to a circular economy, and the systemic change required for the transition. This report builds on the existing literature to identify the actions needed for a better and faster transition to a circular economy for textiles. Each report has four main chapters: Objectives, Impact, Barriers, and Actions

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 56 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

 Herausgeber_in: CNV international

Autor_innen: Dr. Dennis Arnold

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, COVID-19, Corona, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Globalisierung, Kambodscha, Lieferketten, Länderbericht, Löhne, Menschenrechte, Mindestlohn, Politik, Studie, Textile Wertschöpfungskette

Kurzbeschreibung:

This project assesses the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and the partial withdrawal of the European Union’s Everything but Arms trade arrangement on the employment in Cambodia’s garment sector. These trade related shocks or disruptions are analyzed in the political context of Cambodia’s authoritarian shift , as the country has no functioning political opposition and independent trade unions ability to promote workers’ rights has been compromised. As for the economic context, the report looks at Cambodia’s foothold in the global garment industry , which remains as an assembly platform of low value added apparel. The research addresses this de-facto market specialization and the implications when considering changes in power dynamics between global buyers and manufacturers who are consolidating and transnationalizing their production networks.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 31 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)

Autor_innen: y Snetsehay Assefa Tegegn, Maria Hengeveld

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Armut, Äthiopien, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Lieferketten, Länderbericht, Löhne, Menschenrechte, Mindestlohn, Studie

Kurzbeschreibung:

As global brands continue their relentless quest for low-cost production locations, Ethiopia is emerging as a coveted destination. This report presents the results of an investigation of the labor rights environment in Ethiopia’s growing textile and apparel export sector. The investigation included in-depth interviews with garment workers at four export factories producing for leading brands. It reveals wages that are lower, by a substantial margin, than those in any other significant exporting country and grim working conditions that bear little resemblance to the standards the brands claim to be upholding in their supply chains.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 33 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Mela wear

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Schüler_innen Sek. I/II, Berufsschule, Erwachsene

Medien: Podcast

Schlagwörter:  Arbeitsbedingungen, Armut, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Corona, Gesundheit, Indien, Lieferketten, Löhne, Produktion, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung: 

Interview with Parvathi Madappa and Lea Kress

How is the situation of Indian textile workers one year after the start of the pandemic and the 

lockdown in India? How are they affected by the Indian Labour Law Reforms which provoked a massive wave of protests? Parvathi Madappa works for the Indian labour rights organization CIVIDEP and Lea Kress for the German NGO FEMNET. In collaboration with partners in the Global North, CIVIDEP seeks to hold brands accountable for rights violations in their supply chains. For example, CIVIDEP cooperates with the civil society members of the “Textilbündnis” to improve the situation of textile workers. Due to the Corona crisis millions of workers lost their livelihood, that is why CIVIDEP started distributing relief aid and German partners have set up emergency funds.

The podcast is available on different podcast platforms and on the website of mela wear.

Erscheinungsjahr: seit 2021

Umfang: ca. 45 Min

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: Informationen und Podcast auf der Website oder kostenfrei auf mehreren Plattformen

Herausgeber_in: SOMO – Centre for Reseacrh on multinational corporations

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen 

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, COVID-19, Corona, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Gesundheit, Lieferketten, Länderbericht, Leder, Löhne, Myanmar, Überstunden

Kurzbeschreibung:

In this article, data are presented on key labour issues in two garment factories, Leader One and Dong Yi. From intensive interviews with 39 workers, a grim picture of the pre-Corona crisis situation arises. Things cannot go back to the way they were. Let the Corona crisis be a turning point to finally improve the lives of workers in the garment supply chain, starting with these two factories in Myanmar.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Sprache: Englisch

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 Herausgeber_in: Together for Decent Leather, Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF)

Autor_innen: Cornelia Staritz, Lindsay Whitfield

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Armut, Bangladesch, COVID-19, Corona, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Gesundheit, Lieferketten, Länderbericht, Leder, Löhne

Kurzbeschreibung:

Like other sectors, the coronavirus pandemic has also upset the leather production, production process, productivity and its supply chains in all respect. The country's leather exporters are going to be hit hard for the coronavirus outbreak in China, which is their largest export destination (about 60%) of leather from Bangladesh. According to the stakeholders, Bangladesh tanneries and leather sector as a whole facing a huge financial loss amounting over USD300 million and the figure is increasing daily basis. There are around 300 containers of leather and leather goods that are packed up on the factory premises for shipment. Most of the previous export orders are being cancelled by the foreign buyers as the countries from where the order came has also been hit hard.

Under the circumstance of the above since the situation has been changing continuously, Bangladesh Labour Foundation has been taken the initiative to conduct series of situation coverage where this one is the first part of our research which covered immediate impact on the industry due to COVID-19. As a labour support organization, our major focus was to find out the current conditions of the workers where definitely we have gone through the industry update as a whole.  

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 7 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei

Herausgeber_in: Together for decent leather

Zielgruppe: Student_innen Erwachsene

Medien: Filme

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Lieferketten, Leder, Länderbericht, Menschenrechte, Nachhaltigkeit, Pakistan, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

This video shows the labour conditions in the leather industry in Pakistan.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Dauer: ca. 6 Minuten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Ansehen auf der Website

Herausgeber_in: Fashion Revolution, Tamil Nadu Alliance

Autor_in: Sarah Ditty

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Schüler_innen Sek. I/II, Berufsschule , Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Baumwolle, Brasilien, China, COVID-19, Corona, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Indien, Konsum, Leder, Lieferketten, Menschenrechte, Nachhaltigkeit, Textile Kette, Transparenz, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Supply chains are more like webs than linear chains, with layers of agents, contractors and subcontractors. This is a problem because fragmented and opaque supply chains can allow exploitative and unsafe working conditions to thrive while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress them.

This is why Fashion Revolution, among many other organisations, has been calling for greater transparency and accountability across the global fashion industry since the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh in 2013 killing more than a thousand garment workers. In support of the Tamil Nadu Alliance, Fashion Revolution has reviewed the supply chain transparency efforts of 62 major brands and retailers with reported links to textile suppliers in Tamil Nadu.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 44 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei 

Herausgeber_in: KDA Hannover

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Webseiten/ Spiele/ Multimedia/ Apps

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, China, COVID-19, Corona, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Globalisierung, Lieferketten, Lebensbedingungen, Löhne, Menschenrechte, Nachhaltigkeit, Seidenstraße, Soziale Verantwortung, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Corona wirbelt globale Lieferketten durcheinander, das gilt auch für die Textilproduktion. In den Medien ist von stornierten Aufträgen genauso die Rede wie von Lagern voller Kleidung, die sich nicht mehr verkaufen lässt, weil sie nicht mehr „neu“ ist. Der KDA Hannover und das Frauenwerk haben Dr. Sabine Ferenschild von SÜDWIND als Expertin dazu eingeladen.

Die Veranstaltung, die am 10.03.2021 stattfand, wurde aufgezeichnet und kann unter dem Link angeschaut werden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiUbRW18wM0 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Sprache: Deutsch

Dauer: ca. 55 Minuten

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei