Clothing waste landfill

The pileup of waste and garbage in the 'Nuestro Futuro' fashion story emphasize consumption of the latest fashion and damage to the environment.

Chile’s Atacama Desert is a junkyard for fast-fashion clothes. Since the story broke last year, little seems to have changed — except more people are vulnerable to devastating impacts.

Many of us will have read about the accelerating and harmful impact that the growth of ‘fast’ and ‘disposable’ fashion has had on our environment locally and abroad. Over the last couple of years, the global fashion industry has been in the hot seat as a result of issues, ranging from...

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.

The Bangladesh Textile Mills Association has called for the withdrawal of a two-stage value-added tax on the purchase of textile waste from domestic sources and recycled cotton yarn from the waste. It urged authorities to introduce a new harmonised system code for recycled cotton fibre to avert complexities over VAT and supplementary duty on the products.

Artist Vik Muniz blends photographs into sculpture to create something entirely new.

Are our donated clothes really being recycled? Landfills receive millions of tons of textile waste each year because there isn’t enough demand for donated clothing. So how can we reuse and repurpose our old fabrics?

Brokers of wholesale used clothing in California help to source and up cycle used clothing and garments. Here is how they buy/sell used clothing.

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