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Textile companies and researchers are developing innovations within finishing to reduce the release of microplastics from clothing, while legislators pressure the sector to combat this harmful pollution.
Synthetic textiles, geotextiles, coatings and detergent capsules for laundry are among the main sources of microplastics, which researchers agree harm ecosystems (1).…

Packaging firms and brands are preparing for a boom in biomaterial packaging, fuelled by greater consumer demand, regulations to increase sustainability and the maturity of biomaterials. A report by Massachusetts, US-based management consulting firm Arthur D Little (1), released in 2022, said that investment has fuelled production improvements and capacity, easing the mass production of biomaterials derived from plants, animals or bacteria.…

The potential benefits and risks posed to AML systems by quantum computing are becoming clearer, as more powerful and efficient quantum computing systems are developed.

Quantum systems draw processing strength from exploiting how quantum states involve superposition (a particle inhabits two or more places at the same time) and entanglement (two or more particles influence each other), to make quicker and larger calculations.…

With an industry recycling rate currently below 1% and the European Union (EU) Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles target that all textile products placed on the EU market be recyclable by 2030, the EU performance and protection fabric is facing major change.…

The European textile industry is well positioned to lead the global sector towards a more sustainable future, this year’s ITMA 2023 international conference has been told. Alberto Paccanelli, president of Euratex, which represents over 143,000 companies in the European Union (EU) textile and clothing industry, told Just Style at the Milan (June 8-14) event that the European Commission’s Textiles Ecosystem Transition Pathway (1), released June 6, implementing the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, could have a positive impact.…

The use of money mules moving dirty money worldwide continues to grow, with law enforcement, financial institutions and researchers continuing to highlight the problem. In the UK, 31,979 money mule cases were recorded in 2017; rising to 40,129 in 2018; 42,900 in 2019; and 40,353 in 2020; according to 2022 research published in the International Journal of Business and Economy (1).…

Human trafficking and modern slavery have grown exponentially in recent years: in 2021, 50 million people worldwide were estimated to be living in modern slavery, 10 million more than in 2016, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). (1) These crimes – sometimes referred to with the acronym HT-MS – are extremely profitable, ahead of narcotics and arms trafficking, according to Tarana Baghirova, programme officer at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe.…

The sustainability of the global fashion industry is coming under increased scrutiny. Concerns about how the industry uses water, chemicals and human labour, its greenhouse gas emissions and the mounting landfilling of ‘fast fashion’ disposables, have led politicians, sustainability activists and consumers to put pressure on the industry to change.…

The European Commission’s revision of the European Union (EU) Waste Framework Directive, likely to incentivise EU companies that ensure their products are designed with circularity principles, is just one reason why the the textile dyeing and finishing segment is innovating over reducing waste.…

Since February (2023), all tobacco sellers trading excise products across national borders within the European Union (EU) have been using paperless taxation and fully electronic duty transactions. (1) Previously, digital excise procedures were only accessible to operators using a so-called “duty suspension” procedure while duty-paid business-to-business procedures had to be accompanied by physical paper declarations noting the excise duty charged at their destination.…