Ecotextile Talks

Welcome to the third edition of Editor's picks. Each week the Editor of Ecotextile News selects a few key stories from the magazine that he thinks you need to hear, read out by AI voices. Then a human - Philip Berman - pieces it all together with music and voice-over, and a little magic turns it into a podcast for your aural delight!  This week we report on:  The UN accuses China of "serious human...

Welcome to the third edition of Editor's picks. Each week the Editor of Ecotextile News selects a few key stories from the magazine that he thinks you need to hear, read out by AI voices. Then a human - Philip Berman - pieces it all together with music and voice-over, and a little magic turns it into a podcast for your aural delight!  This week we report on:  How a shortage of rain is reining in c...

Welcome to the second episode of Editor's picks. Each week the Editor of Ecotextile News will select a few key stories from the magazine that he thinks you need to hear, read out by AI voices. Then a human - Philip Berman - pieces it all together with music and voice-over, and a little magic turns it into a podcast for your aural delight!  This week we report on:  The Sustainable Apparel Coalition...

In our latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, cotton expert Simon Ferrigno gives his own views to host Phil Berman on why he'd like to see a parliamentary-style inquiry into widespread fraud in the organic cotton sector.   Ferrigno also talks about his recent opinion piece on organic cotton fraud which was published as a special eight-page feature in the April/May 2022 edition of Ecotextile News magazin...

Welcome to the first episode of Editor's picks. Each week the Editor of Ecotextile News will select a few key stories from the magazine that he thinks you need to hear.  This week we report on: How fashion is reacting to the implementation of new regulations in the US that assume any product partly or wholly made in the Xinjiang region of north-west China, is linked to the region's labour camps an...

Randy Rankin, Eurofins Consumer Products Assurance Global Client Development Director for North America discusses the current key environmental, social, and governance risks facing the global textile and apparel industry. Rankin tells our host, Philip Berman, how he believes that new and proposed legislation on the fashion industry – on both sides of the Atlantic – are the key developments that sh...

Alexa Raab, the global brand and communications manager for bio-materials with US chemicals giant DuPont, explains how the company's partially *bio-based Sorona PTT is helping to lower carbon emissions and increase circularity, and why its launched a Preferred Mill Network programme to support the fibre's expansion. *37% comes from corn-starch      

This episode is brought to you by Higg, the technology platform that helps companies measure, manage, and share their social and environmental sustainability data. Host Philip Berman talks to McKenzie Everett, from the cycling apparel brand Pearl izumi, about her company's commitment to sustainability, and how it uses the Higg Product Design Tools to measure, manage, and share the environmental im...

Host Philip Berman talks to Alisia Mätz, from OEKO-TEX®, about the launch of their new tool to help facilities measure and manage their carbon emissions and water usage. Their new Impact Calculator (IC) has been implemented into the STeP certification system at the start of 2022. You can find more details about it here .       

Ken Pucker discusses why 25 years of corporate social responsibility has done little to curb carbon emissions from the textile industry, and why we urgently need new laws to save the planet. Ken is a former chief operating officer at Timberland, a lecturer, and a vocal critic of the Environmental and Social Governance Industry. His most recent article for the Harvard Business - entitled The Myth o...

Host Philip Berman talks to Caroline Ledl, Head of Product Management Textiles for the Lenzing Group, about how her company plans to halve its CO2 emissions per tonne of product by 2030, and also be completely climate neutral by 2050.

In the latest Ecotextile Talks podcast, host Philip Berman speaks with the Lycra Company's sustainability director, Jean Hegedus, about how its eponymous stretch fibre can play a part in textile circularity. Known for being hard to extract when separating blended textile waste, Jean Hegedus provides an insight into how elastane fibre could still play an important part in circular textile supply ch...

In the final episode in our five-part documentary series, we get to hear two brands' views on the future of textile to textile recycling and talk to shoppers about their attitude to buying more sustainable clothes. Features interviews with: Jodi Evering, Fabric and Sustainability Manager, Filippa K; and Camilla Skjønning Jørgensen, Sustainable Materials & Innovation Manager, Bestseller

The fourth episode in our new five-part audio documentary looks at the potential impact of the 2025 Waste Directive on the reuse and recycling of textiles.  

The third episode in our new five-part audio documentary examines the challenges of sourcing enough of the right feedstock for chemical textile-to-textile recycling.   Ecotextile Talks speaks to Södra's Niclas Berg, whose job involves sourcing feedstock for the company's 'OnceMore' process, and Lina Wiles, Head of Sustainability in Sweden for Elis, which is currently Södra's major supplier.   We a...

To coincide with this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, we're bringing to you part two of a new five-part podcast series, in affiliation with Forestry industry group Södra, that explores how diverting textiles from landfill can accelerate the industry's environmental ambitions.     In this second episode ,  Ecotextile Talks host Philip Berman talks to Södra's Joha...

Ahead of this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, we're bringing to you part one of a new five-part podcast series, in affiliation with Forestry industry group Södra, that will explore how diverting textiles from landfill can accelerate the industry's environmental ambitions.     In this first episode ,  Ecotextile Talks  host Philip Berman speaks to Södra's Johanne...

To coincide with the release of a new scientific study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in San Diego, Florian Heubrandner, VP of Global Textiles Business at the Lenzing Group, discusses the importance of fibre biodegradability. 

Ecotextile Talks host, Philip Berman, talks to Harald Notz-Lajtke from Hohenstein, about how their laboratories can now use a form of PCR testing to determine the exact percentage of GMO cotton in a sample. This could be a game-changer in helping companies spot fraudulent rather than accidental contamination in the organic cotton supply chain. 

Host Philip Berman talks to Kate Heiny, Zalando's Director of Sustainability about how the company is helping brand partners improve their sustainability in a number of different key areas with the help of Higg tools. 

The third of our series of podcasts supported by Higg - the technology platform that helps companies manage, measure, and share their environmental and social impact data. In this episode, Philip Berman talks to Hanna Hallin, Treadler's Global Sustainability Manager, about how the H&M Group's new company is helping rival retailers find more sustainable suppliers.     

John Frazier, senior technical director at the Hohenstein Institute America, talks about why the fashion sector needs to up its game on chemical management, and how an Eco Passport can help retailers and brands to clean up their supply chains, at the same time tackling tighter regulations on chemicals.

In this latest episode of Ecotextile Talks, supported by the technology company Higg, listeners hear from Jeremy Lardeau, Vice President, Higg Index at the Sustainable Apparel Coalition; and Cash East, Director of Analytics at Higg, who explain how the Higg Materials Sustainability Index can make a significant, positive impact on environmental sustainability in the global fashion industry. They ou...

In this special episode of EcoTextile Talks brought to you by Higg, producer Phil Berman explores how the global apparel industry can effectively measure and improve social and environmental sustainability performance, and the important role technology and data play in scaling these efforts. Our guests are Higg CEO Jason Kibbey and Amina Razvi, Executive Director of the Sustainable Apparel Coaliti...

Former BBC producer Phil Berman hosts our Radio Show to find out if blockchain can be an important new tool for clothing retailers to provide real-time transparency in their supply networks when sourcing wood fibre – and even wool. Our guests in the studio are Robert van de Kerkhof, Chief Commercial Officer at fibre maker Lenzing; Giovanni Schneider, CEO of Italian wool and cashmere processor the...