WRAP launches UK textiles collection initiative

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Waste charity kicks off Textiles Collection Transition Programme in bid to streamline how textiles are collected, sorted, reused, and recycled

Next, Primark, and Tesco are among the businesses to this week join forces with waste charity WRAP to launch a new industry-wide global initiative to re-design the UK's textile collection system to boost...

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