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Somewhere between 10% and 40% of garments produced every year are destroyed unsold.
@afewbugs @liekedreijerink This made me think of the (French) law banning supermarkets from throwing away food - why not apply that to fashion? And then I thought, why only fashion? How about a generic law that you can’t destroy new things? (There could be exceptions granted in case of real need)
Destroying valuable materials should be anathema to a circular and sustainable economy: everyone should consider it with revulsion for the waste it is.
@afewbugs @liekedreijerink All the talk in the article about a levy seems silly. Way too much overhead implementing that, and for what? There’s a behaviour happening that we don’t want to happen - so just ban it outright.
Enforcement will be another matter, but the EU should have no problem doing this. Companies are already going to have to be transparent about their production through the upcoming CSRD reporting.
@afewbugs A few years ago when I rented an industrial unit I let someone use some spare space to sort out some pallets of unsold clothes to be packaged up for refugees. Only eight pallets.
I couldn't believe the amount of it, all good stuff. I got a nice green tie out of it. It was only going to landfill otherwise.
Now multiply that by 100,000 and that's probably just the UK.