3: Textile Mountain: The Afterlife of our Clothes

Published: May 28, 2020, 1:40 p.m.

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Europeans throw away 2 million tonnes of textiles each year. But do we really know what happens to our clothing when we donate them to charity shops and textile recycling banks?
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Episode 3 looks at the \\u2018afterlife\\u2019 of our clothes, the effects that over-consumption is having on the charity shop sector, and the social & environmental impacts of exporting huge quantities of our fashion waste to the Global South.
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