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Following Vaayu acquisition, Carbonfact launches open-source LCA database

Environmental intelligence platform Carbonfact has released a free, open-source database featuring detailed environmental impact data for textile manufacturing, arriving shortly after the company's acquisition of fellow fashion sustainability platform Vaayu in May. The database contains 300 Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) datasets covering core...

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Most consumers know cheap fashion isn’t sustainable—so why do they keep buying it?

Despite growing awareness of the fashion industry's negative impact, consumers continue to purchase affordable, trendy clothes from fast fashion brands and retail giants. Why is that? How can these two realities coexist? The inspiration for this piece comes from a recent article published by Dutch investigative journalism platform De...