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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.
(Illustrative image) © Reuters
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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