New EU regulations aim to address the environmental damage caused by fast fashion by promoting clothing repair, rental, and sustainable practices. The regulations will require member states to establish separate collection systems for textile waste, aiming to reduce the amount of clothing ending up in landfills.
New EU regulations aim to halt devastation caused by fast fashion by using clothing repair, rental and sustainable practices. Bales of cotton waste at Renewcell’s textile recycling plant in Sundsvall, Sweden: Ireland disposes of 164,000 tonnes of clothing each year, making us the second-highest producer of textile waste in the EU.
Photograph: Felix Odell/New York Times In the past 10 years or so, there has been growing awareness of the environmental and social damage caused by fast fashion – the overconsumption of poor-quality clothing often manufactured in unsafe clothing factories throughout Asia. When discarded, it contributes to the textile waste mountains polluting air, water and land in African countries with inadequate waste management systems. Five million tonnes of clothing are discarded in the EU each year, which works out at about 12kg per person, a little less than a quarter of the average weight of clothing purchased each year (53kg). A mere 1 per cent of the materials in these discarded clothes is recycled into new clothing. The EU’s consumption of textiles is estimated to have the fourth-highest impact on the natural environment and climate change after food, housing and mobility (transport). In Ireland, we dispose of 164,000 tonnes of clothing each year, making us the second-highest producer of textile waste in the EU.‘What has you here?’: Eight years dead and safe in a Galway graveyard, yet here Grandad was standing before me(EPA) estimates about 35 per cent of this waste is separately collected mainly through textile banks and direct donations to charity shops. The other 65 per cent is collected as waste and processed mainly in so-called waste-to-energy plants (aka incinerators). But a new raft of EU regulations and directives is set to change how we manage textile waste. From January 1st, 2025, member states will have to set up separate collection systems for textile wast
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