It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Mustafain Munir

Threadbare / Due Diligence 2022 / V

25 March 2022

4 minutes

An illustrative photo. When recyclers currently receive textile waste through the informal waste handling network, they have no access to the background information of their sourced material. As there are no quality control measures in place among informal traders, it is easy to manipulate the quality of the textile waste.

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