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Social Goods | Bargain Jeans, Giving Up Leather, Turning Trees into Fashion

Social Goods is a weekly roundup of the most important news at the intersection of fashion and ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
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  • Kate Abnett

"How Can Lidl Sell Jeans for £5.99? Easy… Pay People 23p an Hour to Make Them(The Guardian)
"Lidl does not buy its jeans from Bangladesh because Dhaka's factories are the finest in the world: it does so because they pay their workers a pittance."

"Is It Time to Give Up Leather?" (The Guardian)
"To luxury fashion houses, leather goods are the rocket fuel of their huge expansion over the past decade. To high street fashion brands they represent an unrivalled cash cow. To consumers they're just another disposable fashion product."

"Nordic Pulp Firms See Future in Turning Birch Trees into Fashion" (Reuters)
"Nordic pulp makers are developing clean ways to turn birch and pine trees into clothes to help revive their industry and meet demand from fashion and furniture firms for alternative textiles to cotton."

"This Patagonia Supplier Has Received the First-Ever Global Traceable Down Standard" (Sourcing Journal)
"Downlite, a U.S.-based down and feather processor and supplier of responsibly-sourced performance fills, announced Tuesday that it's the first company to be certified to the Global Traceable Down Standard."

"IFC to Promote Vietnam Textile Industry Sustainability" (Fibre2Fashion)
"IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is partnering with global apparel and footwear major VF Corporation and consumer products retailer Target Corporation to improve resource efficiency at their supplier factories in Vietnam."

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