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Online retailer N Brown Group is switching its plastic garment bags to an innovative biodegradable and recyclable polymer alternative to cut down on plastic waste. Drapers finds out more about the sustainability strategy behind the switch.

Marks & Spencer has replaced plastic packaging for its men's essentials range with paper alternatives.

The retailer no longer wants to add to “the mountain of plastic bags” in UK households, so it is replacing its plastic “bags for life” with paper ones.

Eliminating plastic waste and reducing carbon emissions, Pact Retail Accessories’ hanger reuse solutions are helping fashion brands and retailers to meet their sustainability goals.

Drapers explores how compostable packaging provider Tipa is helping brands such as Scotch & Soda find sustainable solutions to single-use plastics in the fashion industry.

Spanish fashion retailer Mango has revealed its vision for a sustainable future with a target of 2030.

Tom Ford has launched a Plastic Innovation Prize for inventors and entrepreneurs to come up with alternative solutions for thin-film plastic, a material which makes up a large percentage of all ocean plastic "leakage".

Asda has become the first UK supermarket to join the Microfibre Consortium, which seeks to reduce the impact of micro-plastics on the environment.