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Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP), formerly Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production, is an organization based in Arlington, Virginia, whose stated aim is promoting safe, lawful, humane and ethical manufacturing around the world. [1] It certifies factories according to twelve "Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production Principles".
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) succeeded the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA), and facilitated the gradual dismantling of quotas for world textile trade that the MFA had put into place. Thus, the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) stipulated a systematic and progressive elimination of the Multi Fiber Arrangement (MFA) over a ...
The ageing population of garment workers in the US is also an issue that the bill aims to address. Incentivising investments into the industry will encourage onboarding of workers through training programs and the introduction of new innovative machinery to the workplace to breathe life into the modern apparel manufacturing world. [2]
The Higg Index is an apparel and footwear industry self-assessment standard to rate environmental and social sustainability throughout the supply chain.The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) launched it in 2012 and owns and develops the suite of tools.
The apparel and footwear companies and labor and human rights groups involved in the initial task force formed a loose organization known as the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP) in 1996. [1] [2] In 1999, the AIP’s charter document was amended to establish the FLA. [2] From 2001 to 2013, Auret van Heerden was the president and CEO of the FLA ...
Fair Wear's work is based on a ‘shared responsibility' approach. Namely, each actor in the supply chain of a certain product is responsible for the conditions in which the product is made. [3] Management decisions of a brand selling clothes in Europe have a huge influence on factory conditions in distant garment-producing countries.
Product stewardship is an approach to managing the environmental impacts of different products and materials and at different stages in their production, use and disposal. . It acknowledges that those involved in producing, selling, using and disposing of products have a shared responsibility to ensure that those products or materials are managed in a way that reduces their impact, throughout ...
The new brand Tradegood was officially launched in August 2012 [4] in the SOURCING at MAGIC at Las Vegas, USA, the largest apparel and textile expo in North America. [5] It was then brought to the China market with a series of large scale launch events [6] spanning across 6 major cities with the participation of some 1,000 buyers, suppliers, industry associations and media.