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Evening Standard
Business
Rhiannon Curry

Why businesses are embracing the resale market to save the planet

Shoppers are more and more interested in buying second hand

(Picture: REUTERS)

The clothing and textile industry is responsible for up to 8% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations. Textiles account for approximately 9% of the microplastics which enter the world’s oceans each year.

But larger brands are beginning to use the resale market as a way of giving clothes a second life, and saving them from landfill.

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