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The hidden consequences of our discarded clothes

The hidden consequences of our discarded clothes

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A Seneca Polytechnic professor is part of the team behind new academic research that reveals what happens to clothing and other textile items that are no longer wanted by people living in rich countries.

Sabine Weber, Professor, School of Fashion, co-authored the international study “Urban transitions toward sufficiency-oriented circular post-consumer textile economies,” which was recently published in the online version of the journal Nature Cities.

Ms. Weber and her co-authors studied clothing disposal practices in nine high-income cities, finding obvious patterns that crossed geographic, linguistic and cultural barriers.

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