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Recycled Textiles

Recycling is the thread tying together our new book together. In your country, the situation is probably similar to our own! In Norway, Frentex (Salvation Army) alone takes in 50 tons of textiles every single day. That is so much more than their shops can manage to sell, and as a result, much of what is donated is shipped to sell in other countries. That causes a new set of problems. Several African countries have passed laws forbidding the sale of used clothing from the West because it suffocates the local clothing production and value creation. Textiles that no one wants to have create a big

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