Textiles sent to Wellington’s Southern Landfill doubled since 2009 and it’s estimated that 25 per cent of it was perfectly fine clothes – that could have been recycled, reused or diverted. Read more
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Bangladesh tragedy puts pressure on garment retailers
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Major clothing retailers in the Western world are being urged to exercise more oversight of working conditions in the Asian factories where their garments are manufactured. Catholic social teaching is being quoted as the death toll in the Bangladesh tragedy of a collapsed garment factory rises above 1100. Bangladesh is the second or third largest Read more