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Carrefour

sells

second-hand clothes

with two 'corners' in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​which since last summer have managed to

commercialize 4,000

baby, children's, women's and men's clothes, in collaboration with the company specialized in second-hand clothes

Patapam

, to promote the circular economy.

This initiative is added to the set of actions that the group carries out on the occasion of the pact signed by Carrefour and other companies in the sector, called

The Fashion Pact

, to commit to reducing the footprint of the fashion industry.

The company ensures that it has committed to making 100% of the materials of its textile brand 'TEX'

sustainable and traceable by 2030

, that 50% of TEX's cotton garments will be BIO by 2025 and that all garments guarantee animal welfare by 2023.

Likewise, it states that it works to use

recycled materials

in the manufacture of its products, that it seeks to consume less water and energy and, for example, highlights how the brand's jeans have viscose fibers from wood from forests that are intended to be preserved for 2022.

The use of plastics in TEX is being reduced by 2025 with the reduction of the number of labels, the reduction of formats and weights of the packaging, hangers that are manufactured with recycled material, cartons of the packaging certified by the Forest Administration Council ( FSC), changes with which, since 2019, they claim, they have managed to

save 255 tons of paper and 116 tons of plastic

.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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