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Should Fashion Pay for Its ‘Waste Colonialism’?
Every single week, around 15 million things of outdated garments are shipped to Ghana, undesirable discards largely from the wardrobes of North American, Chinese and European consumers. The outfits are sold by the bale, significantly of it to shops at Accra’s Kantamanto sector, a person of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the environment. It’s a thriving hub for resale, mend and upcycling. But when the quantity of aged apparel despatched from worldwide markets retains rising, its quality is getting worse. Today, roughly 40 percent of everything that passes by Kantamanto is worthless trash that’s sent straight to landfill, plunging area shops who just cannot recoup what they compensated for…
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How virtual clothes could help solve fashion’s waste problem
London CNN — Fashion’s ephemeral character may well appear to be an odd bedfellow for the blockchain, an on-line ledger that’s developed to be everlasting. But the marketplace is getting strategies to harness it and other electronic resources to decrease waste and thrust manner into the future. Italian enterprise Lablaco is doing the job with style residences and makes to digitize their collections in the burgeoning “phygital” trend marketplace — when customers purchase equally a physical fashion product and its electronic “twin,” created to be collected or worn by avatars in virtual environments like the metaverse. Lablaco was launched in 2016 by Lorenzo Albrighi and Eliana Kuo. Both equally had…
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‘Circular economy’ programs aim to reduce waste and build jobs
This story was republished from The Land. This story is part of a collaborative series, from the Institute for Nonprofit News, the Energy News Network and four other news partners, examining climate resilience across the Great Lakes. This reporting was made possible with support from the Joyce Foundation. While meeting with a local farmer two years ago, Eric Diamond of Central Kitchen, a food business incubator in Cleveland, Ohio, learned that the farmer wasn’t able to sell all the carrots in his fields. Some of the carrots – while perfectly nutritious – weren’t the right size or shape for grocery stores’ and restaurants’ specifications. That sparked a question, and a…