Daily LInks
1. Stop dumping your cast-offs on us, Ghanaian clothes traders tell EU: With 100 tons of clothing from the west discarded every day in Accra, ‘fast fashion’ brands must be forced to help pay for the choking textile waste they create, environmentalists say. – Read More on the Guardian
2. EU tech chief sees draft voluntary AI code within weeks: Vestager said the U.S. and European Union should push a voluntary code of conduct to provide safeguards while new laws are developed. – Read More on Reuters
3. I Asked AI Chatbots to Help Me Shop. They All Failed: “Without the input of real humans writing about using real gear, generative AI will increasingly generate bad recommendations.” – Read More on Wired
4. Greenhushing & Metawashing: How Fast Fashion Obscures the Web3 Carbon Footprint. The buzzword “metawashing” – coined last year by Simon Whitehouse, former CEO of sustainable consultancy Eco-Age – defines the process by which a brand spends more time puffing up its virtual product marketing and metaverse projects than minimizing its sustainability impact. – Read More on Jing
5. The fashion industry has timidly approached circularity, individually investing in, exploring, and executing relatively small-volume plans, rather than establishing formal collaborations aimed at bringing meaningful levels of scale and efficiency to circular initiatives. – Read More on SSIR
6. Diddy Accuses Diageo of Abandoning His Tequila: Diddy alleges that the spirits company has neglected the DeLeón tequila brand it co-owns with the music mogul, while poured resources into two other tequilas, including Casamigos, the George Clooney-backed brand. – Read More on the WSJ
