According to a government report, at least 17,000 garment workers have lost their jobs since orders started being cancelled in March this year.

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Widely-available face masks feature a layer of non-woven bonded fabric – commonly made of polypropylene – which gives them a long afterlife when they are discarded and can end up in landfill or oceans.    

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Russia has also used the crisis to call for an expansion of the so-called Arctic Passage which is increasingly passable due to climate change, saying it is time ‘to develop alternatives to the Suez Canal’. 

Ever since dye sublimation has hit the mainstream, it has revolutionized clothing.

It is a perfect fit for the internet generation who are constantly fighting to be unique. The best part about this printing process is that the images and prints do not stand on top of the fabric but instead it is infused within the fabric. The design and print becomes one with the clothing item and provides for a more polished and sophisticated

Images of an indigo denim fibre identified as cotton found in (C) Arctic sediments, (D) Great Lakes fish, and (E) wastewater treatment plants effluent and (F) a denim fiber released from blue jeans collected from wash water effluent.

Indigo denim fibres also make up almost a quarter of microfibres in the Great Lakes in and around the Canada-US border and  a fifth of clothing fragments in the the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the experts reveal. 

‘Here we show, for the first time, that blue jeans, the world’s most popular single garment, have a widespread geographic footprint in the form of microfibers in aquatic environments from temperate to Arctic regions. 

s. When a consumer is looking at clothing manufacturers, what they are most attentive to is the standard. It is important for them that the manufacturer be consistent, so that they may rely on the goods that they buy from

Garment unions also welcomed the launch of the testing facilities, but urged factory owners to prioritise the payment of overdue wages and ensure layoffs were avoided despite a wave of cancelled orders by foreign buyers.

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«It’s a good initiative but the lab should have been opened a lot earlier. Also, there are some workers who haven’t been paid their salaries and their bonuses,» said Nazma Akter, president of the Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation.

At least 276 garment workers have been confirmed to have the new coronavirus, with no deaths reported, according to the latest official data. Across the country, there have been 60,000 confirmed cases, including 811 fatalities.

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It is also important that their sizes be consistent and their designs and pattern have the same standard. It is also necessary that they be able to provide enough variety within the segment that they are in, so that each one may find the piece which suits his individual

DHAKA, June 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A laboratory to test garment workers for coronavirus is opening in Bangladesh as manufacturers seek to stem the spread of COVID-19 in factories that produce clothes for many of the world’s leading fashion brands.

Based on the levels of microfibers found in wastewater effluent, the researchers estimate that the wastewater treatment plants in the study discharged about 1 billion indigo denim microfibers per day. 

The experts don’t know the effects that the microfibers have on aquatic life, but a practical way to reduce denim microfiber pollution would be for consumers to wash their jeans less frequently.               

Vessel utilisation has been at full capacity on the Asia-Europe trade route because of heavy demand from European importers, with terminals in Europe experiencing labour shortages due to coronavirus-related measures, said Greg Knowler from consultancy IHS Markit.

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There are some who dedicate themselves to a particular segment like women’s clothes, children’s clothes or men’s apparel. Then there are others who work with a certain fabric and let that design clothes for men, women and children alike. So there are people who only make denims for all people and sizes, there are people who design hosiery and also those who only specialise in lingerie and inne