Sustainable clothing: A practical guide to enhancing clothing durability and quality

WRAP

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The Sustainable Clothing Guide is a practical guide to help brands and retailers to enhance the durability and quality of the clothing they produce.

Factory Standard for Apparel and Home Goods

Fair Trade USA (FTUSA)

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This document contains the requirements that comprise the Fair Trade USA Factory Standard for Apparel and Home Goods and defines the rules for participation of Apparel and... Read More

Compliance Criteria for the Factory Standard for Apparel and Home Goods

Fair Trade USA (FTUSA)

Other | Free | Mar 06, 2014

In the following pages, each standard is followed by a table with its corresponding Compliance Criteria, against which factories are audited. 

Well dressed?

University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing

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Our clothes are getting cheaper, they follow fashion more rapidly and we’re buying more and more of them. At the same time, we hear more about poor working conditions in... Read More

UNEP Guidleines for Social Lifecycle Assessment of Products

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

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It is a social impact (and potential impact) assessment technique that aims to assess the social and socioeconomic aspects of products and their potential positive and... Read More

ISO 26000 and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

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Learn how ISO 26000 contributes to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, SB 657

California State Legislature

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The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, which was signed into law in October 2010 and went into effect in January 2012, requires certain companies to report on... Read More

Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition Code of Conduct

Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC)

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The EICC Code of Conduct is a set of standards on social, environmental and ethical issues in the electronics industry supply chain. The standards set out in the Code of... Read More

SDG Compass (2015) by UNGC, GRI, WBCSD

United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) | Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) | World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Article | Free | Dec 30, 2014

Primary Functions:Learn how you can align your strategies as well as measure and manage your contribution to the realization of the SDGs.The SDG Compass provides guidance... Read More

After the Binge, the Hangover: International Fashion Consumption Survey

Greenpeace

Article | Free | Apr 01, 2017

A new survey, commissioned by Greenpeace, of the shopping habits of people in Europe and Asia finds that regularly buying too many clothes, shoes, bags and accessories has... Read More

An Ethical Framework for Cross-Boder Labor Recriuitment: an Industry Stakeholder Collaboration to Reduce the Risks of Forced Labor and Human Trafficking.

Verité & ManpowerGroup

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ManpowerGroup and Verité are working together to mobilize a new, pragmatic, multi-stakeholder effort to combat forced labor and human trafficking in the cross-border... Read More

SA8000 Standard

Social Accountability International (SAI)

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This is the fourth issue of SA8000, a voluntary standard for auditable third-party verification, setting out the requirements to be met by organizations, including the... Read More