From text: "Every year in Europe, an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn.
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From text: "Every year in Europe, an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn. This waste generates around 5.6 million tons of CO2 emissions – almost equal to Sweden’s total net emissions in 2021.
To help reduce this wasteful practice, the ESPR requires companies to disclose information on the unsold consumer products they discard as waste. It also introduces a ban on the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear."
"In France alone, around €630 million worth of unsold products are destroyed each year. Online shopping also fuels the issue: in Germany, nearly 20 million returned items are discarded annually."
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116080878669337874
From text: "Every year in Europe, an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn. This waste generates around 5.6 million tons of CO2 emissions – almost equal to Sweden’s total net emissions in 2021.
To help reduce this wasteful practice, the ESPR requires companies to disclose information on the unsold consumer products they discard as waste. It also introduces a ban on the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear."
"In France alone, around €630 million worth of unsold products are destroyed each year. Online shopping also fuels the issue: in Germany, nearly 20 million returned items are discarded annually."
The production of clothing is so incredibly resource intensive, it eats up so much water, produces so much waste, and employs so many unprivileged workers for a pittance while making them sick from overwork and exposure to chemicals, textile dust and poor working conditions!
And then it often never gets WORN? Fucking criminal.I don't know how effective this legislation will be and how much the global producers are going to run circles around it and bypass it... But it's good that an effort is being made. Well done! Better late than never!
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The production of clothing is so incredibly resource intensive, it eats up so much water, produces so much waste, and employs so many unprivileged workers for a pittance while making them sick from overwork and exposure to chemicals, textile dust and poor working conditions!
And then it often never gets WORN? Fucking criminal.I don't know how effective this legislation will be and how much the global producers are going to run circles around it and bypass it... But it's good that an effort is being made. Well done! Better late than never!
@sinituulia I wonder if these are (among) the clothes that ended up being burned in the Atacama desert in Chile?
I remember coming across this some years ago:
Chile's Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground
Clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert. How it got there tells the story of modern fast fashion.
Environment (www.nationalgeographic.com)
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The production of clothing is so incredibly resource intensive, it eats up so much water, produces so much waste, and employs so many unprivileged workers for a pittance while making them sick from overwork and exposure to chemicals, textile dust and poor working conditions!
And then it often never gets WORN? Fucking criminal.I don't know how effective this legislation will be and how much the global producers are going to run circles around it and bypass it... But it's good that an effort is being made. Well done! Better late than never!
@sinituulia have bought only 1 piece a year and only for hiking in the last five years. EU
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@sinituulia I wonder if these are (among) the clothes that ended up being burned in the Atacama desert in Chile?
I remember coming across this some years ago:
Chile's Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground
Clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert. How it got there tells the story of modern fast fashion.
Environment (www.nationalgeographic.com)
@amenonsen At least some of it, probably? Clothes that fashion brands don't want to end up on the second hand market (to maintain "exclusivity" or something nonsensical and elitist) will get destroyed and sent to the landfill without ever getting the chance to be sorted through to be resold or recycled. Not that the second hand market is ideal either, but...
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@sinituulia have bought only 1 piece a year and only for hiking in the last five years. EU
@mocarts I make everything I wear, apart from socks and shoes! I don't think you or I are the problem here
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116080878669337874
From text: "Every year in Europe, an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn. This waste generates around 5.6 million tons of CO2 emissions – almost equal to Sweden’s total net emissions in 2021.
To help reduce this wasteful practice, the ESPR requires companies to disclose information on the unsold consumer products they discard as waste. It also introduces a ban on the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear."
"In France alone, around €630 million worth of unsold products are destroyed each year. Online shopping also fuels the issue: in Germany, nearly 20 million returned items are discarded annually."
@sinituulia It's a good start. Fabric content is the next step.
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