Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse.
The ban on destruction of unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear and the derogations will apply to large companies from 19 July 2026. Medium-sized companies are expected to follow in 2030. The rules on disclosure under the ESPR already apply to large companies and will also apply to medium-sized companies in 2030.
yeah… they just gonna ship it to a 3rd world country…tag it as “humanitarian help” where this shit gets dumped on a beautiful beach, suffocating sea turtle babies.
But that turtle looked cold!
No need for 3rd world country, Ukraine is enough. There is war there so humanitarian help is just fine.
I hope so because then I can hire a bunch of 3rd world children for 50 cents per month to gather up, match, repackage, and export to North America to re sell in sketchy ass discount liquidation stores in run down strip malls. Every 100k pair of pumas comes with one free baby sea turtle… hell, if sales are fast enough it might even still be alive.
While a ban may make sense on paper, it doesn’t take into consideration that fast fashion is literally designed to last a couple of days. If only the production of fast fashion was more regulated…
It will all just get dumped in the Atacama desert, like they already do. Every year tons of fast fashion wearables get dumped there.
That is depressing if true
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chile-fashion-pollution
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