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   Christoph Schmees (pc_fluesterer@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 18:05:48 JST Christoph Schmees

   What fast fashion leads to

   The spanish paper and online portal EL PAÍS just published a revealing investigation. They endowed used but still good clothes with hidden geolocation tags and deposited the clothes in 15 used clothes bins across Spain. Then they tracked the journeys of the different pieces. It's a long and abysmal story.

   https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-03-01/where-do-the-clothes-go-after-we-put-them-in-a-recycling-bin-an-11-month-investigation-covering-thousands-of-kilometers.html

   #FastFashion #environment #climate #commodities

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     Gregg Alley (galley@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 09:04:56 JST Gregg Alley

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     • moggie

     @EverydayMoggie @PC_Fluesterer Not sure if it’s different in the US, but I was under the impression that the clothing was shredded to make insulation. 🤷♂️

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 09:04:56 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Gregg Alley

     @Galley @EverydayMoggie @PC_Fluesterer that’s just one of the many ways in which these companies have lied to us about green washing. Reducing is still the best way, reuse and recycle is absolutely messed up globally. Almost all of it is going to the global south to landfills

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     moggie (everydaymoggie@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 09:04:57 JST moggie

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     That story is wild. I knew clothes ended up as waste but the sheer scale of this is staggering.

     @PC_Fluesterer