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Europe will soon read our labels

Around 2029, a buyer in Europe will scan a code on a Pakistani bedsheet and expect to see where its cotton was grown, which mill spun the yarn, which dyes were used, how much energy went into making it. That is the practical meaning of the EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP), which will apply to textiles once the relevant delegated act is…

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