YESS Initiative Wants to ‘Drive Change’ to End Modern Cotton Slavery 

May 23, 2022 EcoVadis EN


Avoiding cotton harvested using modern slavery isn’t an impossible task, but it does require companies to adjust their sourcing strategies, a new pilot study has found. Spearheaded by the Responsible Sourcing Network’s (RSN) Yarn Ethically & Sustainably Sourced initiative, or YESS, the project demonstrates that training and assessing spinning facilities and textiles mills on due…



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