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The ban on destroying unsold clothes reaches the recycler
Since the summer, large brands may no longer destroy unsold clothing. At Frankenhuis in Almelo, new garments still turn up in the waste. The inspector tells Trouw that recycling counts as destruction unless the fibres become new textile.
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The shadow side of fast-fashion recycling
On 11 May 2026 CNN showed what happens in Panipat, India, to clothes from charity bins. A million tons a year are spun into yarn and rugs there. For some of the workers, their health pays the price.
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New EU rules to stop the destruction of unsold clothes and shoes
By 2050, there will be more plastic in our oceans than marine life. And plastic has a notoriously long life in landfills. We meet entrepreneurs discovering new ways to retrieve plastic from our waterways, turning it into fuel or back into plastic again. Others look to reduce single-use plastic in our daily lives, by working on alternative materials.
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Solve the textile waste with Science
By 2050, there will be more plastic in our oceans than marine life. And plastic has a notoriously long life in landfills. We meet entrepreneurs discovering new ways to retrieve plastic from our waterways, turning it into fuel or back into plastic again. Others look to reduce single-use plastic in our daily lives, by working on alternative materials.
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Rethinking The World’s Waste: Circular Economy
By 2050, there will be more plastic in our oceans than marine life. And plastic has a notoriously long life in landfills. We meet entrepreneurs discovering new ways to retrieve plastic from our waterways, turning it into fuel or back into plastic again. Others look to reduce single-use plastic in our daily lives, by working on alternative materials.
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Fast fashion – Dumped in the desert
Huge heaps of used and unsold clothes have piled up in the Atacama desert in Chile in recent years. A symbol of the hidden cost of fast fashion, they show the industry’s disastrous environmental impact.
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