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<\/a>Several of the large clothing chains, such as H&M, The Gap and Gina Tricot are all accepting textile donations under mantras such as \u201cClosing the Loop\u201d. They encourage the consumer to bring in their old clothes in return for a voucher to buy new garments. But what happens to these donations? Many of our clothes today consist of mixed fibers. A pair of jeans for example is often a mix between cotton and elastan. Once the fibers are mixed it is a very hard and recourse demanding process to separate them again. The only garments that are recycled into new textiles today are 100% cotton, mainly white sheets, which are easy to dye again. Approximately 10% of our donations are sold as second hand within EU borders, 40% are sold to third world countries where the companies no longer control their end destination, another 40% ends up as isolation or low quality products to be sold in third world countries and the last 10% is usually burnt. Numbers borrowed from David Palm, Ramb\u00f6ll<\/a>.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the choice of transportation to and from the store accounts for up to 22% of the total climate impact. This means that if you take the car to the store and buy a garment made out of for example recycled polyester the small win from buying recycled is overshadowed by your choice of transportation. End in end, in a perfect world we would all use public transportation to reach a second hand store where we buy all our clothes and make sure we maintain them in good condition for as long as possible.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewaveswemake.se\/malinviolawennberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}