How the EU plans to make fast fashion ou • Table.Briefings

The EU wants to break with the fast fashion model. While demand for textiles continues to rise, the industry leaves behind an enormous environmental and social footprint. To reduce this footprint, the EU Commission is focusing in particular on recycling textiles. But the corresponding technologies are still in their infancy.

„Let’s make fast fashion out of fashion,“ said SPD MEP Delara Burkhardt when she presented her own-initiative report on recyclable textiles last week. The Social Democrat wants to break with the model in which ever-new textile trends are produced ever faster and cheaper. In the EU alone, demand for textiles has increased by 40 percent in just a few decades.

How the EU plans to make fast fashion out of fashion

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