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Textile industry: spring-waste collection

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A vendor sells second-hand clothes from Europe and the United States.

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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

In Europe, we only wear a third of our wardrobe while the African markets are overwhelmed with second-hand clothes, our surpluses... The "fast fashion" which always produces more has human, environmental and economic impacts catastrophic.

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Guests: 

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Catherine Dauriac,

author of

Fashion collection Fake or not 

at Tana Éditions

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Nayla Ajaltouni,

 general delegate of the

Ethics on Labels collective

Reports: 

- Uganda: The impact of second-hand clothes by Lucie Mouillaud

- Indonesia: The Citarum River polluted by textile industries by Vincent Souriau.

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