Bangladesh’s textile waste crisis threatens industry’s future

Zero Waste Day shines a light on fashion and textiles

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide marked the International Day of Zero Waste, which spotlighted solutions to the mounting environmental and social problems caused by the fashion and textile sector.   More than 240 events were held across the globe, from an exhibition in China where old fabrics were reimagined as furniture to a youth hackathon in France. Some 630,000 people joined the Zero-Waste-Day conversation on social media, while ai…

Bangladesh’s textile waste crisis threatens industry’s future

BANGLADESH’S limited capacity to deal with the enormous waste generated by its textile sector may prove unsustainable as the global fashion industry faces pressure to reduce its environmental footprint. As more countries introduce rules requiring greater recycled content in clothes, analysts and business owners said Bangladesh must expand recycling to meet demand from a global textile recycling market projected to be worth $9.4 billion (£7bn) by…