Let's Chat About What Happens To Our Old Clothes // With Amelia Easley from Sustainability Of Podcast
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ABOUT THE EPISODE
In this episode of The Ethical Conversations Podcast, Amelia and I talked about whether shopping second-hand is the most sustainable and ethical way to buy clothes, what actually happens to our clothes when we donate and recycle them, the impact that the second-hand clothing industry has on LEDCs, why some companies incinerate their stock and the impact this has, if our clothes actually get recycled when we send them off to be & much more on this super educational and informative episode!
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SOURCES MENTIONED:
HuffPost – We Buy A Staggering Amount Of Clothing, And Most Of It Ends Up In Landfills.
The Atlantic – Where Does Discarded Clothing Go?
BBC – Where Do Your Old Clothes Go?
Oxfam’s Study – The impact of the second-hand clothing trade on developing countries
Business Of Fashion – Africa vs the USA: A Secondhand Clothing Showdown
BBC – Burberry Burns Bags, Clothes and Perfume Worth Millions
Ellen MacArthur Foundation – Make Fashion Circular
Ellen MacArthur Foundation – A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning fashion’s future
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