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WRAP Market Situation Reports provide in-depth information on the latest economic trends and developments affecting the capture, re-use, and recycling of key recovered materials.

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Through collaboration with partners and allies inside and outside Myanmar, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is monitoring the significant increase in labour and human rights abuses of garment workers across the country since the military takeover. This cooperation has enabled the creation of our tracker of allegations of garment worker abuse. This tracker captures over 100 cases of alleged labour and human rights abuses perpetrated against at least 60,800 garment workers, revealing widespread and systemic abuse of garment workers in international brands’ supply chains.

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The report produced at the end of the study concludes that the working conditions in both supply chains are below universally recognized standards set by the International Labour Organization (ILO), and that the wages these workers are paid cannot be termed as a ‘living wage’. The report compares the consumption and expenditure patterns of workers in the two sectors to determine whether their actual wages measure up to the concept of a ‘living wage’. Working conditions in all the five factories studied do not qualify as ‘decent work’, a concept created by the ILO to describe the right of employment in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.

Editorial team: Hemstad, Arild

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Textile products have a huge ecological footprint at all stages of their lives. As more clothes are produced, worn, and thrown away than ever before, the current linear, take-make-dispose model follows by the textile industry is putting an enormous pressure on our planet – its resources, environment, and climate.

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current situation and goes on to explore the policies and standardisation actions needed to advance towards circular textiles, building on the lessons learned from the implementation of the ecodesign approach in other sectors.

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Like other sectors, the coronavirus pandemic has also upset the leather production, production process, productivity and its supply chains in all respects. 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.

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