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tacomagicktoday at 4:34 PM1 replyview on HN

So I buy my own factory and produce my own pollutants and I dont have the right to do whatever I want with them, mad world.


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no-name-heretoday at 4:43 PM

And per OP article:

1. This only applies to companies above a certain size.

2. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of textiles are destroyed each year in the EU before use.

3. In Germany alone, companies destroy tens of millions of garments per year under just one of the existing justifications for destroying garments before use.