Clothes, shoes: the French sector challenged to organize better to recycle effectively
It has been more than ten years that great colleagues for used clothing are set out in the streets of France.However, the share of articles made from old clothes remains "infinitesimal", according to Maud Hardy, Circular Economy Director of the Refashion Eco-Organism, created in 2008.
The few examples put forward by the brands (uniqlo jacket at the down from old jackets, recycled cashmere sweater of Zara ...) are just a drop of water.A regrettable situation, while fashion is one of the most polluting industries.Recycling has, in fact, a double merit: that of avoiding burying or burning textiles and that of reducing the production of virgin matter, consumer of water and pesticides for cotton, oil for synthetic fibers.
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If recycling is not sufficiently developed, it is because there are nodes all over the chain.Starting with collection.France has set itself the goal that 50 % of clothes, linen ...
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