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EU dumps 37 million items of plastic clothing in Kenya a year leading to pollution - Levin - 21-07-2023

By Rosie Frost  •  Updated: 20/02/2023


EU countries are dumping 37 million items of ‘junk plastic clothing’ in Kenya every year

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Investigators say that exporting junk clothing to poorer countries has become an “escape valve” for “systemic overproduction” and this hidden stream of waste should be illegal.

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Exporting plastic waste from the EU is restricted and is soon to be banned in the bloc. Despite this, the investigation found that more than one in three pieces of used clothing shipped to Kenya contained plastic and were of such low quality they immediately become waste.

Kenyan traders say that the amount of junk clothing arriving in the country has significantly increased in the last few years. The clothing they receive is often soiled with vomit, heavy stains or animal hair. It reflects an increase in cheap, disposable fast fashion.

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“In truth, our addiction to fast fashion is saddling poorer countries like Kenya with polluted soil, air and water.”

The report also claims that recycling firms which are part of Fashion for Good and Textiles 2030 are trading high volumes of junk clothing.

“A large proportion of clothing donated to charity by well-meaning people ends up this way. Why? Because the backbone of the fast fashion industry is plastic, and plastic clothing is essentially junk,” says Musasia.

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More than two thirds of clothing is now made of plastics like nylon and polyester which are impossible to recycle.

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“Recycling companies cannot be allowed to hide behind their empty promises and should be banned from exporting junk clothing,” Harding-Rolls adds.


https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/16/eu-dumps-37-million-items-of-plastic-clothing-in-kenya-a-year-which-country-is-the-worst-o

in 2021, Germany, Poland, the UK, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Lithuania, Estonia, France and Ireland accounted for 95 per cent of all second-hand clothing exports from the EU to Kenya

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RE: EU dumps 37 million items of plastic clothing in Kenya a year leading to pollution - Manthink - 21-07-2023

And here we are in SG told to protect the environment by banning the use of plastic bags...

Angmoh hypocrisy at their finest, again.

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