Throwaway fashion: Retailers should be forced to pay for textile clean-up, say MPs

Madeleine Cuff
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Government should introduce producer responsibility charges for clothing to pay for collection and recycling systems, MPs conclude following major investigation

"The fashion industry has marked its homework for too long", MPs will today declare in a major new report accusing the fashion sector of presiding over a system of forced labour, environmental destruction,...

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