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cassianolealtoday at 2:47 PM4 repliesview on HN

How long until they start shipping those abroad where they will become toxic bonfires?


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mtrovotoday at 3:43 PM

You're half joking but this actually happens already. As you can imagine there's a lot of backlash on dumping good clothes on Europe itself so they export them in bad conditions just to have it burned out of sight.

https://changingmarkets.org/report/trashion-the-stealth-expo...

And it's not just old clothes being discarded, another related study showed that around 30% of clothes returned from online stores are not even looked over to see if they're worth selling again and are discarded straight away.

Hackbratentoday at 3:05 PM

That loophole has become very difficult:

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/...

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wiz21ctoday at 2:53 PM

At least they're trying.

wolvoleotoday at 2:53 PM

That can be penalised too.

We really have to get away from the idea that curtailing intentional industrial waste production is futile. Perhaps in American style capitalism it is because the system is rigged and the biggest money bag always wins. But we don't want this here at all.

We have to get forward as humanity and treat our planet with respect. Otherwise we won't have one worth living on. Making money isn't the only thing that counts.

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