Recherchetool für Materialien

Research Tool for Materials

The materials database contains media on our key topics of working conditions in the textile and clothing industry and the environmental impact of clothing. The types of media include studies, guidelines and reports, as well as films, podcasts and web tools.

 

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A new survey, commissioned by Greenpeace, of the shopping habits of people in Europe and Asia finds that frequently buying tomany clothes, shoes, bags and accessories has become an international phenomenon. This is particularly striking in China and Hong Kong, but is alswidespread in Europe, with up thalf of consumers buying more clothes than they need and use. Consumers are nlonger shopping because they need something. On the contrary: Younger people in particular shop despite already having tomuch, longing for fulfilment and encouraged by social media and the ease of online shopping. However, shopping doesn’t make people happy as the excitement only provides a temporary fix.

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From a European consumption perspective, textiles have on average the fourth highest negative life cycle impacts on the environment and climate change – after food, housing and mobility. A shift to a circular textiles production and consumption system with longer use, reuse and recycling can contribute to reducing those impacts, along with reductions in overall consumption. One important measure is circular design of textiles to improve product durability, repairability and recyclability, and to ensure the uptake of secondary raw materials in new products.

The aim of this report is to contribute to the implementation of the EU Strategy for Textiles and the EU Sustainable Product Initiative through an improved understanding of the environmental impacts from textiles from a European perspective and identify design principles and measures to increase circularity in textiles.

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The CIR study shows that in many cases the federal government does not require credible evidence of compliance with human rights when purchasing. A case study on the production of Bundeswehr clothing in Tunisia illustrates what this can lead to: At the time of the investigation, fundamental labour rights such as freedom of association were violated in a factory.

The publication contains the results of a survey of federal authorities, a contextual analysis of the textile industry in Tunisia, the case study on the production of Bundeswehr clothing and the resulting demands of the CIR on the federal government.

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It seems to be widely presumed that working conditions and wages in European fashion production are better than in Asia. The Clean Clothes Campaign has already questioned this notion in its 2014 report Stitched up where we found out that the gap between the minimum and actual wages of workers and an estimated minimum living wage tends to be bigger in Europe than in Asia. In Europe-East/South it is found a comparatively low level of unionization in general and in particular in the garment industry.

This paper summarizes and concludes discussions that the CCC’s European Production Focus Group (Europe-East/South Group) has had in numerous meetings and calls since 2014. The intention has been to find a methodology for a cross-border base living wage benchmark for European garment production countries.

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