Thanks Rachy. I thought this was interesting:
"Manufacturers know that customers are more interested in low prices
than durability, because they increasingly expect to wear their clothes
just a few times and throw them away.
"So the quality's not as
good, so when our customers get [an item] they're not getting two or
three hundred wears out of it - they know it's only going to be a couple
of uses," he says.
That means, according to Fee Gilfeather, head
of marketing for Oxfam's trading division, "more [clothing] is getting
incinerated than there used to be.
Which is why both Oxfam and LMB say the future of clothes recycling
might be "closing the clothing loop": figuring out a way to fully
recycle these clothes into fabrics we might use."