Would You Rent Your Clothes?

Globally, only around 20% of clothes are re-used or recycled. The majority go to landfill or are incinerated. In the USA alone, the amount of clothes being thrown away has doubled in the last two decades. In World Hacks ...we meet the Scandinavian entrepreneur Vigga Svensson trying to change this. Could a solution to this waste be to give people the option of renting clothes, so they don’t hoard things they rarely wear? Or how about clothes you can throw away guilt free, because they are fully compostable?

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Even when "the west" thinks the clothes are "finished" they can be re-used by "recycling"...READ the article.

Garments whether made from wool, cotton or linen are often "industrially" processed and then spun into yarn known as "shoddy" from which it is possible to create blankets for poor relief purposes. See the Video