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What We’re Reading: In Europe, Clothing Waste Is Unfashionable - and Illegal

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What We’re Reading: In Europe, Clothing Waste Is Unfashionable - and Illegal

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. From high waists to low waste The European Union is no longer allowing unsold fashion and footwear to be destroyed - it has to be reused or recycled, as Earth.org reports in a story shared by Contributing Editor Michaela Haas. Each year, it’s estimated that four to nine percent of unsold textiles are destroy

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