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Katherine V Gough

Professor of Human Geography Loughborough University
Katherine V Gough

Katherine V Gough is Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough University.

 
 
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Going Circular / EOL Textiles / I Report
Collection infrastructure has grown faster than the systems needed to interpret, sort, and process what arrives—exposing a structural imbalance at the heart of textile circularity.

Circularity Has Been Mistaken for the Act of Gathering

  • Special Correspondent

1 April 2026
Textile Recovery / Summit Report / III Feature
The materials entering textile recovery systems were designed for performance and price, not recoverability—a contradiction that sorting technology alone cannot resolve, regardless of its sophistication.

The Recycling Plant Cannot Fix What the Factory Got Wrong

  • Subir Ghosh

27 March 2026
 
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Rethinking Circularity / Garments Apart / I Feature
Where performance apparel meets its limits, the real question is not what a garment is made from, but how it was conceived to end.

Four Partners, One Jacket, and a New Logic for End-of-Life

  • Subir Ghosh

6 April 2026
Going Circular / EOL Textiles / III Report
Textile recovery depends not only on what is collected but on whether the system receiving it has the capacity to distinguish value from waste at scale.

The Recycling System Was Not Built for What It Receives

  • Special Correspondent

3 April 2026
 
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Second Chance / Guatemala Story / II Feature
Across Guatemala’s markets, women transform imported clothes into economic lifelines—sorting, repairing, and reselling garments that global systems label as waste, sustaining families and extending textile lifecycles.

Female Traders Drive Guatemala’s Secondhand Clothing Economy’s Real Value

  • Subir Ghosh

22 October 2025
Deep Focus / Sri Lanka Overview / IV Report
In the Long Run

In the Long Run

  • Subir Ghosh

7 March 2022