From text: "Every year in Europe, an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn.
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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."
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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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