Textile Waste, a mounting problem.

“It is important that we monitor the situation closely as we don’t want huge volumes of unwanted clothes just piling up on our islands with nowhere to go." - Rebecca Smith, Sustainability Lecturer at UHI North, West and Hebrides. Around 300,000 tonnes of textile waste is burned or land filled in the UK every year. While many people take unwanted clothes to Charity shops or re-sell them online, that only deals with a small proportion…

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