Transparent & Traceable Value Chains

For almost ten years, the fashion industry focused on transparency and traceability as a tool for ensuring social progress in supply chains. Prior to this, the industry relied on social compliance to improve labor conditions. Unfortunately, the social compliance system is plagued with dysfunctions (corruption among them) and audit fatigue (an exorbitant amount of a facility’s resources, time and money being exhausted by multiple audits from different clients throughout the year). Responsible purchasing practices most often codified in codes of conduct, are a new foundation for social and labor programs, but they’re just a start. On this episode of Unspun, Lauren, Catherine and Danielle sit down to discuss the birth of social compliance, transparency and traceability and what’s needed to create radical accountability: shifting our lens to the entire value chain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Unspun, is a podcast by Population. Three sustainability experts, Lauren Hill, Danielle Arzaga and Catherine Tedrow unravel what’s holding us back from regeneration and liberation in the fashion and home industries. The world was already at a tipping point when the pandemic hit. Fashion brands cancelled orders, leaving garment workers unpaid. Not long after, the same workers put their lives at risk to make PPE. In the midst of all this, a racial reckoning swept the U.S. triggering the greatest wave of wokewashing the country had ever seen.It may not seem like it, but these problems are all interconnected. On this podcast we look at the whole system—and the people within it—to discover why and what it will take to create change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.