Italy's capital of textile recycling | Focus on Europe

[@Runnifier]

I am disgusted by what I see in all the fashion shows. Nobody dresses like those on the runway because it doesn’t look good. Just because you have money doesn’t mean you have good style.

[@Free-sm8qc]

This should be done everywhere for the sake of earth and mankind 🙌🏻

[@JimmyGeorge1]

Of course for a better future.

[@graveperil2169]

no its just a fig leaf trying to hide all the wasted resources

[@OlafsonN]

@@graveperil2169Agree. If anything, we in the west are paying those in Africa to use their lands as a dump.

[@The_Phoenix_61]

Recycling is already done in most part of world except for developed nations. Issue with developed nations is that they buy cloth for a season and discard them without any second thought. In developing countries, clothes stay for as long as they don't reach end of their life. Along with that, lots of developing countries takes discarded clothes from western countries and reuse and recycle them.

[@OlafsonN]

@@The_Phoenix_61 You are absolutely right. I would change one thing. What we call the developing world is really the over exploited.

[@cnath3466]

Thanks for this great story, DW. This lady is right to point out the important role that the fashion industry plays here (3:00). If the industry becomes responsive to their global waste footprint and gets on board with recycled fashionable clothes (Why not?), it will be possible to recycle >50%, rather than our current sad 1%.

[@djtomoy]

The concept of fashion is incompatible with environmentalism

[@hayabusa27]

Tomtex from NY is leading the charge!!!

[@CXensation]

Fashion is a way to make money - not clothes.

[@stefanadamek367]

it's insane how easy some things are, we just have to do them!

[@ektorkornoo8806]

The workers probably need masks, with all that heavy handling of fabrics.

[@allyourcode]

Consumption is obscene.

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

I wish America had such recycling options.

[@mimikrya8794]

No problem. Buy and throw away clothes without worry! Recycling and the circular economy will solve all environmental problems. I just wonder why I get sick when DW broadcasts documentaries about piles of textile garbage that ends up in Africa and South America from developed countries, poisoning their environment?🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@karolinakuc4783]

Only 8% of yarn your clothing can come from reused cotton. Idk about other materials.

[@MainulWasTaken]

People should invest in this initiative! Also i think we must incline to this products that cities like Prato are offering

[@fintan9218]

Gen Y?

[@HavokTheorem]

The young lady's walk speaks volumes!

[@songnianzhang366]

It is a huge waste and pollutions, terrible!

[@karolinakuc4783]

A drop in ocean of needs. Fast fashion waste is a big problem

[@graveperil2169]

but they still want you to buy new clothes each season, because its a new colour or they have moved the button never can you be caught with last seasons clothes Clothes may be Sustainable if you wear them to holes but fashion never will be its just greenwashing

[@michaeltorio3459]

Wow super recycle half the world 2023 E-wally or AAA batteries unlimited bladeworks I have the power😉

[@TheRio02]

Viewer beware! Love how they skip through Africa and not explaining further. These cheap synthetic material are shipped to Africa…such counties like Ghanda are suffering from overwhelmed of the amount of cheap clothing arriving to their country. Not only they are using Africa as a dumping ground but also ruing their economy by offering inexpensive price for these used clothing…this will drawn the local ppl to buy clothing at less expensive price rather than supporting their own local products. This creates problems with jobs…..if you want to see more on these issues in depth you can find short reports on BBC

[@AAIVE]

i did see that actually. i really love sustainable clothing and that’s what i personally buy, but i don’t like this relationship with africa. i recently saw a pretty disturbing headline, something like, ‘used clothing from europe: trash or treasure for africa?’ (though perhaps it was addressing the issue?) with respect to used fast fashion that just felt self-explanatory; why should it be useful for african folks to receive things that we ourselves don’t want and that are a bane on worker’s rights and lives in various countries, with questionable quality because of the sheer speed and pressure of production?! it’s very weird and feels extremely dissonant. there seems to be a lot of dissonance, to put it politely, in this area as well as many others!

[@karolinakuc4783]

I guess it is better for them to go to Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria coz those when burned can heat up poor people sadly since also synthetics are send it produces smog

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[@dgschindele]

Excellent piece! Thank you, DW.