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Almost 100 billion items of clothing are produced every year. 65% of them end up in the trash within a year. But there is an alternative. New recycling technologies are creating sustainable ...
What began as a bizarre discovery of 12 million baht ($366,000) in cash hidden in a plastic container and dumped at a ...
Your sweat-wicking workout clothes, your running shoe uppers ... they’re essentially just dye-free, container-shaped pellets. Used textiles, on the other hand, have all sorts of contaminants ...
Last year you may have seen headlines about an extraordinary photo captured by satellite — a mountain of clothes in the Chilean ... cardboard and traveling by container ship and truck ...
Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill ... Importers can spend as much as $95,000 on a container of clothes and have no idea what they're buying.
Piles of clothes dumped in the desert in the La Pampa sector of Alto Hospicio can be seen on Nov. 11, 2022. AFP via Getty Images What a waste. A satellite image taken above Chile’s Atacama ...
A young couple has been slapped with a massive $1,559.53 (£1,200) fly-tipping fine – after one of their garbage bags was stolen and dumped 30 ... waste and old clothes for collection.
VINTON, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Mountains of clothes were dumped behind the old Zebra's Gentleman's Club on Monday. A viewer tipped KFOX14/CBS4 off to the presence of these piles of clothes dumped ...
The garments that fail to sell are dumped in the Atacama. The news organization added that, as of 2021, it was estimated that around 59,000 tons of clothes arrive in the region each year ...