No contracts, no rights: How the fashion industry is cheating its workers on minimum wages Most workers in Pakistani garment factories are scammed for their rightful wages: The vast majority do not receive written contracts, payroll or wages that would allow them to feed their families. In addition, factories in Pakistan often employ only a small proportion of workers directly. Many workers are hired through third parties who act as intermediaries between the textile factories and the workers. Often these workers do not even nominally receive the statutory minimum wage and are not registered in the social security system. Mehr Details
Clothing - How bad is fast fashion for the climate and the environment? More and more cheap fashion: Germans are buying more and more clothes - often clothes end up in the garbage after wearing them a few times. This ensures that more and more old textiles are produced - and the cheap fibers often do not re-used will be. A problem with recycling. Mehr Details
Second hand is the first choice: Charitable or capitalist? Buy yourself happy! Timeless, sustainable and cool - with selected books, discarded furniture or vintage fashion. Other colors, different cuts, decades-old clothes that are the exact opposite of environmentally harmful fast fashion. The ‘second-favorite’ product does not only run as a moral trend in the ‘re-sale’, because you can shoot second-hand without a guilty conscience, while the fashion industry causes a lot of CO2. Mehr Details
Greenwash Danger Zone – 10 years after Rana Plaza fashion labels conceal a broken system More and more consumers are aware of the high environmental and social toll of fashion and prefer to make a responsible choice. But if they are trying to work out the sustainability of jeans, t-shirts or sneakers, they will be faced with a jungle of labels, tags, pictograms, acronyms and claims, most ofThey are coming in green. Sustainability sells – even fast fashion is coloured in green now – the magic of marketing makes it possible. To reveal what lies beneath the green sheen, this report checks out some of these self-assessed marketing labels. What is the basis of the claims that are made, how reliable are they and what do they actually cover? Can consumers take these labels at face value, and are they independently verified? Mehr Details
Greenwash Danger Zone – 10 years after Rana Plaza fashion labels conceal a broken system More and more consumers are aware of the high environmental and social toll of fashion and prefer to make a responsible choice. But if they are trying to work out the sustainability of jeans, t-shirts or sneakers, they will be faced with a jungle of labels, tags, pictograms, acronyms and claims, most ofThey are coming in green. Sustainability sells – even fast fashion is coloured in green now – the magic of marketing makes it possible. To reveal what lies beneath the green sheen, this report checks out some of these self-assessed marketing labels. What is the basis of the claims that are made, how reliable are they and what do they actually cover? Can consumers take these labels at face value, and are they independently verified? Mehr Details
