Worldview: Africa’s Used Clothing Importers Dispute Waste Claims

🌍 Africa’s used clothing importers dispute campaigners’ waste claims. Speaking at the inaugural Textile Circularity Conference, organised by the Bureau of International Recycling, on Sep. 17 in Brussels, Belgium, African representatives refuted what they described as “unverified” claims made by sustainability campaigners and international media that 40 percent of secondhand clothing imports into the region are of such poor quality that they end up in landfill as textile waste….